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"This working paper aims to synthesize current efforts to develop comparable evaluation methods for social issue documentary films. Authored by two researchers who have been jointly documenting the field’s transformation over the past five years, this paper offers a framework for planning and eval
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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
New York: Guilford Press (2011), xxi, 373 pp.
"Developmental evaluation offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a developmental evaluation framework. Patton draws
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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xx, 239 pp.
"This book reviews quantitative methods and models of impact evaluation, presenting an analysis of the quantitative research underlying recent programme evaluations and case studies prepared for a series of impact evaluation workshops in different countries, sponsored by the World Bank Institute (WB
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Agency-Based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice
Thousand Oaks: Sage (2010), 323 pp.
"Agency-based Program Evaluation: Lessons from Practice, by Stephen A. Kapp and Gary R. Anderson, serves as a core textbook in the advanced undergraduate and graduate social work program evaluation courses. It combines the methodology of program evaluation with the reality of working with agencies a
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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services
Key Guides
Wageningen; The Hague; Amsterdam: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); Royal Tropical Institute (KIT); International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2009), xi, 321 pp.
"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri
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Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation
RAND Europe (2009), xi, 208 pp.
Discussion Paper on the Monitoring and Evaluation of UN-Assisted Communication for Development Programmes: Recommendations for Best Practice Methodologies and Indicators. 11th UN Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development. Background Paper
Washington, DC: UNDP; World Bank (2009), 43 pp.
"United Nations agencies currently do not have commonly agreed tools for assessing the impact of Communication for Development (C4D) programmes. This paper is designed to help them explore the key issues surrounding C4D, consider case studies and best practice methodology and propose a set of draft
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"Die anvisierte Leserschaft dieser Landkarte ist die entwicklungspolitische Fachwelt, die mit der Analyse von tatsächlichen, das heißt empirisch nachprüfbaren (de facto) Wirkungen befasst ist und die einen schnellen, informativen Zugriff auf das Vorhandene benötigt. Dies sind in erster Linie Pro
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Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Business Books (2009), viii, 327 pp.
"Explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The boo
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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
Deep Insights
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), iii, 155 pp.
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense
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Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services
Baltimore, Md.; Cambridge, Mass.; Washington, DC: Center for Communication Programs; Management Sciences for Health; Constella Futures (2007), x, 50 pp.
"The 29 indicators in the Guide measure the reach, usefulness, and use, as well as the collaboration, and capacity building engendered through information products and services. The innovative “Conceptual Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services” shows how
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A Case for the Quantitative Assessment of Participatory Communication Programs
Glocal Times, issue 9 (2007), 14 pp.
"What is dialog, and how can it be measured in a meaningful way? In this article, Jacobson presents an approach to assessing participatory communication based on communication in the form of dialog as conceptualized by Jurgen Habermas." (Abstract)
Evaluación de proyectos de desarrollo local: Enfoques, métodos y procedimientos
Lima: Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo (DESCO) (2007), 156 pp.
"Este libro recupera parte de lo ya escrito y dicho sobre la evaluación en diferentes textos y espacios de reflexión y de diálogo. Si se nos pregunta sobre su aporte diríamos que, sumada a la convencional y necesaria presentación de argumentos conceptuales y herramientas metodológicas que sust
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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
Oxford: Oxfam (2007), 74 pp.
Evaluating Mass Media Health Communication: The Use of Evaluation Data to Improve Theory
Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg (2007), 127 pp.
"This paper discussed the possibility to improve public communication campaign theory, by making use of data obtained through mass media health communication campaign evaluations. The idea of an ‘engineering’ approach to campaign design, where theory and scientific findings are systematically us
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Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperation. 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2007), 81 pp.
"The symposium Measuring Change. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation1: The adding of “Planning” to “Monitoring and Evaluation” in the subtitle indicates that emphasis was laid on learning from monitoring and evaluation experie
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