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Constructing an evaluation report
This guide from USAID has been designed to provide guidance on how to construct evaluation reports.Selecting Performance Indicators
This paper from USAID is aimed at providing guidance on the selection of effective performance indicators.Baselines and targets
This guide defines baselines and targets and why they are both important.Data quality standards
This paper from USAID provides guidance for ensuring good data quality as a central part of establishing effective management systems.Conducting data quality assessments
This guide explains the purpose, standards and what is required for a data quality assessment.USAID Evaluation Policy Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
This document was created for USAID staff and intended to provide guidance to Operating Units (OU's)in the implementation of the USAID evaluation policWading Through the Data Swamp: Program Evaluation 201
This website offers a self paced online module which examines alcohol and marijuana use case studies to produce descriptive statistics including the mean and standard deviationEvaluation Guidelines for Foreign Assistance
These guidelines from the Office of the Director of U.S.Evaluation Standards
These standards from the Office of the Director of U.S.Information Quality Guidelines
This brief from USAID outlines how staff must implement the US Government's Office of Management and Budget's Guidelines to ensure the objectivity, utility, andHow to talk about climate change
This collection of resources - toolkit, short guide and cheat sheet - sets out the challenges of talking about climate change and presents effective strategies to address them.Framework for Assessing and Monitoring Forest Governance
The Framework outlined in this paper can be used to facilitate description, diagnosis, monitoring, assessment and reporting on the state of governance in a country’s forest sector.Policy Impact Toolkit
This toolkit from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluations (3ie) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is designed to support evaluators and reseUtilization-Focused Evaluation Curriculum
This webpage from Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICT4D (DECI) provides links to five learning modules which outline the basics of Utilization-Focussed evaluation plus two extra modules which are focused on ICT4D issues.Tips on producing institutional histories
Brief Summary: The main objective of an institutional history is to help scientists and their organizations learn, so it is important that they actively engage in the process.DECI Research Objectives
Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICT4D (DECI) is a program developed by the International Development research Centre (IDRC) to develop capacity in ICDT amongst IDRC partners through aUNEG quality checklist for evaluation terms of reference and inception reports
This guide from the UNEG is a checklist designed to support UNEG members in the design and implementation of evaluations.Evaluating Development Co-Operation: Summary of Key Norms and Standards
Evaluating Development Co-Operation Summary of Key Norms and Standards is a set of core principles for evaluation of development assistance adopted by the OECD DAC in 1991 and are at the heart of the Evaluation Network's approach to evaluatSetting social and environmental standards v6.0
This code of good practice from the ISEAL Alliance is aimed at setting and codifying standards for the design and implementation of environmental and social systems.Designing and conducting health systems research projects Volume 2: Data analyses and report writing
This guide provides 13 modules designed to demonstrate aspects of data analysis and report writing.Visual language for designers: Guide
"Within every picture is a hidden language that conveys a message, whether it is intended or not. This language is based on the ways people perceive and process visual information.The Art of Focused Conversation
This book is intended to expand images of what can be accomplished through the Focused Conversation Method. This is done by demonstrating how many workplace tasks can be accomplished through the medium of focused conversation.A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence
Using a literature review and interviews, this paper aims to provide an overview of the different approaches to monitoring and evaluating policy influence.Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI)
Caring for our Country - MERI Strategy - is a website that breaks down the evaluation processes into four interrelated components: monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement.Evaluating humanitarian action using the OECD-DAC criteria
This guide provides practical support on how to use the OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) criteria in evaluation of humanitarian action (EHA).User's Guide for SWOT Analysis
This guide from Impact Alliance provides a description of the SWOT tool, outlines examples for different uses and applications, offers two different ways to conduct a SWOT analysis, and concludes with a description of how to interpret and aMonitoring and Evaluation for Projects and Partner Organizations
This webpage from Business Development Systems (BDS) (archived link) analyses the some of the problems associated with indicators and impact evaluation and arCommunity score card process - a short note on the general methodology for implementation
This guide outlines the Community Score Card Process and details its four components.Ascertaining causality in theory-based evaluation
This paper from E. Jane Davidson explores the relative strengths and weaknesses of program theory as a tool for inferring causality.Evaluation Methodology Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Sound Evaluation
This book, written by E Jane Davidson, focuses on the basics of evaluation methodology including parts on developing criteria and mixed method evaluations.Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy influence
This handbook from the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) is designed to support research institutions develop monitoring anCenter for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI)
Founded in 1998 as a project of the Independent Sector, the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI, now the Council for Nonprofits Everyday Advocacy) is now a nat