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Organisational Assessment Tools
INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.
"Organisational assessment (OA) tools are designed to assess organisational capacity, and plan capacity development initiatives. Sometimes they are used for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) purposes as well. There are two main ways of using OA tools for M&E. One is to develop an action plan based on
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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank (2021), xviii, 209 pp.
"Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. An empirical revolution has changed the face of development research over the last decade. Increasingly, researchers are
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Independent Media and Free Flow of Information: An Evidence Gap Map Protocol
New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2021), 58 pp.
"This report presents the protocol for a systematic search to identify and map the evidence base of impact evaluations and systematic reviews of interventions that aim to promote an independent media as a democratic institution in low- and middle-income countries. The EGM was developed by 3ie, made
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"Many systematic reviews are solely concerned with effectiveness or impact. While a review which tells you what works can help you decide what to do, it is of less use in telling you how to do it. Causal chain analysis-based systematic reviews, which analyse the working of a logic model or a theory
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Engaging Stakeholders to Co-Design Rigorous and Relevant Research and Evaluation
Oxford; London: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), 14 pp.
"The framework for selecting appropriate methods of stakeholder engagement is presented here as five steps that can help people who are commissioning or conducting research or evaluations to orient themselves to their context, research purposes and, ultimately, options for stakeholder engagement. Th
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Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability
Los Angeles; London; New Delhi: Sage (2021), xxvi, 553 pp.
"This timely and comprehensive textbook covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs, particularly social programs and projects, with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective. It provides students with an equ
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Evaluating Complex Interventions in International Development
London: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), 103 pp.
"The aim of this paper is to provide guidance on the evaluation of complex interventions in international development. Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, unlike other reviews on the same subject, our focus is exclusively directed to evaluations of development interventions. Seco
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Remote Evaluations: Initial Experience and Recommendations
Braunschweig; Berlin: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (National Metrology Institute) (2021), 10 pp.
"Advantages and disadvantages of remote evaluations: Advantages: environmentally friendly and applicable in case of travel restrictions; a cost-effective and more efficient implementation is possible; reduction of the project staff's workload; flexibility in scheduling the data collection, interview
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M&E of Capacity Strengthening
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Capacity strengthening is a process in which people and/or organisations are provided with external support to enhance and maintain their capacity over time. It can be a complex process, involving multiple actors, methods and influences. Monitoring and evaluation should always be designed to suppor
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A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices
Key Guides
USAID (2021), v, 79 pp.
"The purpose of this review is to support education practitioners, host country government representatives, donors, implementers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, and other stakeholders in applying best practices to monitor and evaluate distance learning initiative
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Tools for M&E of Capacity Strenghtening
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Changes arising from capacity strengthening work can sometimes be measured directly. A range of tools and methodologies can also be used to help assess capacity change. Most of these were not designed specifically with capacity strengthening in mind, but can easily be adapted for the purpose. CSOs
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Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Methods and Frameworks
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2021), vi, 230 pp.
"In the emerging fields of religious and interreligious peacebuilding, the question of monitoring and evaluation is a challenging, yet necessary process. The need to develop comprehensive yet fitting evaluation models for religious and interreligious peacebuilding is not only important for donor int
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Using Big Data for Impact Evaluations
Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), 7 pp.
"Big data can contribute to the evidence base in development sectors where evaluations are often infeasible due to data issues. Given the rapidly increasing availability of big data and improving computation capacity, there is a great potential for using big data in future impact evaluations. Big da
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"Ce rapport réunit une terminologie hétérogène, des conclusions et des recommandations émanant des secteurs privé et public et du monde universitaire pour définir un ensemble de cinq étapes générales à suivre par les professionnels lors de la réalisation d’une EI. L’EI compare une va
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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
Deep Insights
Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp.
"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op
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