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Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators
Wageningen: Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research Centre (2011), 118 pp.
"Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little done to bring about change within organisations. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations contribute to empowering stakeholde
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Monitoring and Measuring Press Freedom on a Global Scale: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Freedom House Index
In: On Media Monitoring: The Media and Their Contribution to Democracy
New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 25-36
Ex-ante-Evaluation: Ein Planungsansatz für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Münster et al.: Waxmann (2011), 295 pp.
"Ziel des Buches ist es, durch die systematische Verknüpfung des Gegenstandsbereichs verschiedener Analyseansätze einen ganzheitlichen und theoretisch fundierten Bewertungsrahmen sowie einen methodisch ausgearbeiteten Verfahrensvorschlag für die Ex-ante-Evaluation von Programmen zu vermitteln. Im
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"This report maps the evolution of evaluation and donor decision making in media development over the last two decades. Through interviews with media development donors, implementers and academics, we examine major donor perspectives on monitoring and evaluation (M&E), the main challenges within med
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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
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The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results
Key Guides
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2011), xxi, 356 pp.
"The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox identifies stages in the use of outcomes and shows you how to use specific facets of existing outcome models to improve performance and achieve meaningful results. Going beyond the familiar limits of the sector, this volume also illustrates how tools and approaches lo
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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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A Resource Guide to Public Diplomacy Evaluation
Los Angeles: Figueroa Press (2011), 149 pp.
Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS): Pacific Media Benchmarks (2005)
Melbourne; Adelaide: Australian Aid (AusAID); Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); University of Adelaide (2011), 87 pp.
"This study draws together two bodies of work concerned with media pluralism, effectiveness, development and strengthening in the developing world. One is drawn from UNESCO’s global work on media assessment and impact indicators, the other from AusAID’s Pacific Media and Communications Facility
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Researching, Monitoring and Evaluating Communication for Development: Trends, Challenges and Approaches
United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Communication for Development (2011), xvii, 136 pp.
"Elaborated on the basis of a literature review and consultations with 11 C4D focal points or monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialists from 7 UN agencies and a 15-member expert panel. Based on this research, the report details a number of principles for effective, appropriate, and sustainable res
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Impact: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 37 pp.
"This guide will take you through the essential steps for designing an evaluation of your community information project. These steps explain what to do and consider at different stages of the evaluation process: 1. Describe your project and identify your target audience. 2. Identify the evaluation
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Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure
Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2010), 63 pp.
"The organizations that conduct country rankings should continue to increase technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency. In particular, continued attention must be paid to digital media, notably the Internet and mobile phones, which now number approximately 4.6 billion worldwide
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Normes de qualité pour l’évaluation du développement
OCDE (2010), 15 pp.
"This document outlines basic steps in planning monitoring and evaluation for advocacy and covers: distinctive features of monitoring and evaluation for advocacy; five questions for planning advocacy monitoring and evaluation; special focuses on equity, humanitarian advocacy monitoring and evaluatio
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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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Evaluating Peace Operations
Boulder, Col.: Rienner (2010), ix, 234 pp.
"There has been a great deal written on why peace operations succeed or fail [...] But how are those judgments reached? By what criteria is success defined? Success for whom? Paul Diehl and Daniel Druckman explore the complexities of evaluating peace operation outcomes, providing an original, detail
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