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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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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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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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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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Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work
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
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Improving Impact Evaluation Production and Use
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2009), viii, 78 pp.
Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation
RAND Europe (2009), xi, 208 pp.
Virtual Change: Indicators for Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development
Rome: FAO (2009), ix, 38 pp.
Developing a Performance Story Report: User Guide
Key Guides
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
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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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Spheres of Influence: We Communicate, Therefore We Are
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
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Leitfaden Wirkungsorientierung in den Projekten und Programmen der Welthungerhilfe: Teil I: Hintergründe und Definitionen
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
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BCO Impact Assessment Study: The Final Report
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
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Deepening Our Understanding of the Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Final Report
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
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Participatory Impact Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners
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
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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
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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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Improving Democracy Assisstance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research
Washington, DC: National Academies Press (2008), xiii, 277 pp.
