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NGO-IDEAs Impact Toolbox: Participatory Monitoring of Outcome and Impact

Eberhard Gohl, Bernward Causemann, Martina Rithaa, C. Rajathi, George Cottina, Godofredo Limotlimot

Bonn: Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO) (2011), 74 pp.

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Monitoring Self-Effectiveness: A Manual to Strengthen Outcome and Impact Oriented Project Management

Eberhard Gohl, Bernward Causemann, Verena Brenner

Bonn: Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO) (2011), 86 pp.

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Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact

Jessica Clark, Barbara Abrash

Center for Social Media (2011), 75 pp.

"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 ... more

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Impact Evaluation in Practice

Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.

"This book off ers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in impact evalu ... ation. Prospective impact evaluations assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results or test alternative strategies for achieving those results. We consider that more and better impact evaluations will help strengthen the evidence base for development policies and programs around the world. Our hope is that if governments and development practitioners can make policy decisions based on evidence—including evidence generated through impact evaluation—development resources will be spent more eff ectively to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. The three parts in this handbook provide a nontechnical introduction to impact evaluations, discussing what to evaluate and why in part 1; how to evaluate in part 2; and how to implement an evaluation in part 3. These elements are the basic tools needed to successfully carry out an impact evaluation. The approach to impact evaluation in this book is largely intuitive, and we attempt to minimize technical notation. We provide the reader with a core set of impact evaluation tools—the concepts and methods that underpin any impact evaluation—and discuss their application to real-world development operations. The methods are drawn directly from applied research in the social sciences and share many commonalities with research methods used in the natural sciences. In this sense, impact evaluation brings the empirical research tools widely used in economics and other social sciences together with the operational and political-economy realities of policy implementation and development practice. From a methodological standpoint, our approach to impact evaluation is largely pragmatic: we think that the most appropriate methods should be identified to fit the operational context, and not the other way around. This is best achieved at the outset of a program, through the design of prospective impact evaluations that are built into the project’s implementation. We argue that gaining consensus among key stakeholders and identifying an evaluation design that fits the political and operational context are as important as the method itself. We also believe strongly that impact evaluations should be candid about their limitations and caveats. Finally, we strongly encourage policy makers and program managers to consider impact evaluations in a logical framework that clearly sets out the causal pathways by which a program works to produce outputs and influence final outcomes, and to combine impact evaluations with monitoring and complementary evaluation approaches to gain a full picture of performance." (Preface) more

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Measuring the Impacts of Information and Communication Technology for Development

New York, Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2011), v, 23 pp.

"This paper explores why measuring the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) is important for development – and why it is statistically challenging. Measuring impacts in any field is difficult, but for ICT there are added complications because of its diversity and rapidly chang ... more

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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices

Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Hussain A. Samad

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 ... more

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Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work

Jeremy Holland, Allyson Thirkell

London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFID) (2009), v, 72 pp.

"This Working Paper from DFID’s Evaluation Department offers a menu of Voice & Accountability (V&A) indicators, and suggests steps for building monitoring and evaluation frameworks for V&A interventions. It provides a check list of management issues, and some ideas for data collection. It does not ... more

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Virtual Change: Indicators for Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development

Warren Feek

Rome: FAO (2009), ix, 38 pp.

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Verfahren der Wirkungsanalyse: Eine Landkarte für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis

DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation, Arbeitskreis „Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik“ (2009), 51 pp.

"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 ... more

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Improving Impact Evaluation Production and Use

Nicola Jones, Harry Jones, Liesbet Steer, Ajoy Datta

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2009), viii, 78 pp.

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Developing a Performance Story Report: User Guide
Key Guidance

Alice Roughley, Jessica Dart

Commonwealth of Australia (2009), 92 pp.

"This guide outlines a step-by-step process for developing a performance story report in the context of natural resource management. The guide can be used in a range of contexts by evaluators and others who want to use participatory evaluation approaches to report on outcomes. Users may include cons ... more

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Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation

Tom Ling, Lidia Villalba van Dijk (eds.)

RAND Europe (2009), xi, 208 pp.

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BCO Impact Assessment Study: The Final Report

David Souter et al.

London: BCO Building Communication Opportunities (2008), 192 pp.

"This report investigates the impact media and ICTs can have on the lives of the poor, based on the experiences of nine donors and NGOs forming part of the "Building Communication Opportunities (BCO)" alliance. It suggests that radio will have the most influence on social and political change where ... more

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Spheres of Influence: We Communicate, Therefore We Are

A. S. Panneerselvan, Lakshmi Nair

Kathmandu: Panos South Asia (2008), 31 pp.

"Having a vibrant media scene is a necessary prerequisite to human development and good governance. But, the time has come for us, media practitioners and support organisations, to accept and recognise that this is too complex to bring about on our own. It would be prudent to recognise the limitatio ... more

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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
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Richard Heeks, Alemayehu Molla

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 ... more

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Leitfaden Wirkungsorientierung in den Projekten und Programmen der Welthungerhilfe: Teil I: Hintergründe und Definitionen

Matthias Mogge (coord.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (2008), 19 pp.

"Teil I erläutert Begriffe und Hintergründe wirkungsorientierter Projektplanung und verortet Wirkungsorientierung im Projektzyklus der Welthungerhilfe. Teil II stellt eine praxisorientierte Handreichung bereit, in der das wirkungsorientierte Vorgehen in den einzelnen Projektphasen Schritt für Sch ... more

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Deepening Our Understanding of the Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Final Report

Steve Finkel et al.

Nashville, Tenn.; Pittsburgh: Vanderbilt University;University of Pittsburgh (2008), 102 pp.

"Does USAID’s democracy promotion program work? Although some prior studies have examined specific projects in individual countries, no prior effort has studied the question on a world-wide basis, and no prior study has encompassed the entire post Cold-War period. [...] In the first phase of that ... more

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Participatory Impact Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners

Andrew Catley, John Burns, Dawid Abebe, Omeno Suji

Medford, MA: Tufts University, Feinstein International Centre (2008), 63 pp.

"This guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector. Other than in some health, nutrition, and water interventions in which indicators of project performance sho ... more

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Improving Democracy Assisstance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research

Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assisstance Programs, National Research Council

Washington, DC: National Academies Press (2008), xiii, 277 pp.

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Wirkungsorientiertes Monitoring: Leitfaden für die Technische Zusammenarbeit

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 38 pp.

"Hauptfunktion des wirkungsorientierten Monitoring ist es, die Steuerung von Entwicklungsmaßnahmen zu unterstützen sowie den Dialog über die eingeschlagene Strategie im Management- bzw. Projektteam und deren Aufsichtsgremien anzuregen – insbesondere im Hinblick auf die regelmäßige Operationsp ... more

Developing a Performance Story Report: User Guide Key Guidance

Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects Top Insights

Developing a Performance Story Report: User Guide
Key Guidance

Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
Top Insights