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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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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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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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Choosing an Evaluation Theory: A Supplement to Evaluation Roots (3rd Edition)
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, volume 17, issue 41 (2021), pp. 51-60
"Unlike scientific theories, evaluation theories are prescriptive: a set of actions and approaches that should be followed when conducting an evaluation. While evaluation theorists have offered a variety of writings describing their theories and approaches, few have offered a specific outline of wha
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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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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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M&E of Network Development
INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.
"Network results can be divided into different categories, such as network vibrancy, network connectivity and network effects. Monitoring and evaluation tools and methods need to be chosen to assess each of these areas separately, depending on the need. Network surveys and social network analysis ar
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M&E of Training
INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.
"Training can take different forms. It can be carried out as a one-off exercise, or can be combined with other types of support, such as coaching or mentoring. The most well-known model for monitoring and evaluating training is the Kirkpatrick model, developed in the 1950s. A number of other models
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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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Estimated Costs for Evaluation Services Depending on the Scale of the Program Being Evaluated
Institute of Public Policy Governance (2020), 1 p.
"The resource provides a guide for the expected costs of various evaluative activities in an Australian context. The main purpose for commissioners of evaluative activity to have a sense of the budget they should set aside for these activities. However, the guide also alerts potential users to the r
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The Key to Evaluation: 10 Steps. "Evaluiert" in Brief
Zollikofen: Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) (2020), 23 pp.
"In this brochure – and in the ‘evaluiert’ textbook to which it refers – evaluation is understood as a scientific service that describes and valuates objects of evaluation (especially programmes and measures) for clarified purposes and on the basis of justified criteria. Moreover, the valuat
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Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria: Using a Text-Message Survey to Assess Radio Programs
RAND Corporation (2020), 32 pp.
"Using a randomized encouragement design, we assigned 2,064 people to listen to either 'Ina Mafita' or to a control program (professional soccer matches) each week over the course of two months. Recruitment and engagement were conducted remotely via short message service (short message system [SMS]
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Decoding Media Impact: Insights, Advice and Recommendations
Philadelphia, Penns.: Media Impact Funders (2020), 31 pp.
"This guide is meant to serve as a practical resource for funders who want to understand where to start. Informed by feedback from our network, it represents a synthesis of the past seven years of work we’ve done in the impact space, and includes examples of successful media impact evaluation, too
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Assessing the quality of developmental evaluations at UNFPA
New York: UNFPA (2020), [80 pp.]
"The purpose of this guidance is to clarify the concept of quality in developmental evaluations managed by UNFPA. It is intended to increase the understanding of UNFPA evaluation staff, external evaluation consultants, and those contracted to carry out quality assessment of UNFPA developmental evalu
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M&E Tools for Advocacy Work
INTRAC (2020), 7 pp.
"Many different tools and methodologies can be used to support advocacy work. Some are designed specifically for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) purposes. Others are designed to support the planning and management of advocacy interventions, but can be used or adapted for M&E purposes. CSOs often emp
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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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