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The Quick and Dirty on Data Visualization
This blog post by Nancy Duarte for the Harvard Business Review outlines five questions that should be asked before deciding how to visualise data.Review of evaluation approaches and methods for interventions related to violence against women and girls (VAWG)
This paper, written by Michaela Raab and Wolfgang Stuppert for the UK Department for International Development (DfID), assesses the strengthsHow to do a rigorous, evidence-focused literature review in international development
This guidance note from Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Richard Mallett of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) outlines an eight-stage approach to writing a literature review that complies with the principles of a systematic review while stilUsing humanitarian evaluation for change: Insights from humanitarian practitioners
This guide, written by Alistair Hallam and Francesca Bonino for Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), outlines a framework for strengthening the capacity of humanitarian evaluations.Guidance for the design of qualitative case study evaluation
This guide, written by Professor Frank Vanclay of the Department of Cultural Geography, University of Groningen, provides notes on planninPublic Service Transformation: Introductory guide to evaluation
This guide from the Public Service Transformation Network aims to support evaluation of the effectiveness of work to transform public services.From intended strategies to unintended outcomes: The impact of change recipient sensemaking
This paper, written by Julia Balogun and Gerry Johnson, outlines a longitudinal, real-time analysis of planned change implementation to provide an explanation for the unintended results that come about from evaluation strategies.Measuring health promotion impacts: A guide to impact evaluation in integrated health promotion
This guide from the Victorian Government Department of Human Services aims to assist in the design and implementation of impact evaluation methods and indicators for health care programs within pChoosing qualitative data analysis software
This chapter section by Eben A. Weitzman guides readers through some of the important considerations when choosing appropriate qualitative analysis software.How do we know if a program made a difference? A guide to statistical methods for program impact evaluation
This guide, written by Peter M. Lance, David K. Guilkey, Aiko Hattori and Gustavo Angeles for MEASURE Evaluation, outlines core statistical and econometric methods for program impact evaluation.Designing initiative evaluation: A systems-orientated framework for evaluating social change efforts
This guide from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation outlines a systems-oriented framework for initiative and cluster evaluation and includes four general designs that can be used.Evaluating Impacts of Peacebuilding Interventions
This guide, written by Diana Chigas, Madeline Church and Vanessa Corlazzoli for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) is aimA synthesis of 25 impact evaluations
This paper, written by Henk van den Berg, analyses 25 impact evaluations of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs based on the Farmer Field School approach.External review of the peace, conflict and development (PCD) program
This report, written by Reychler, Scharbatke-Church and Thomas with support by Clegg and Heilman for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), evaluates the effectiveness of the Peace, ConfliEAA advocacy evaluation guide
This guide, written by Cristina Mansfield for Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), presents a set of simple guidelines that can be used for evaluating advocacy initiatives.Logic models: A tool for effective program planning, collaboration, and monitoring
This guide, written by Wendy Kekahio, Brian Lawton, Louis Cicchinelli and Paul R.Evaluation of the 'stronger, smarter realities' program
An example of a COR used for an indigenous education program in Australia.Australian Government performance story report
This is an example of collaborative outcomes reporting (COR) used for a natural resource management program in South Australia.Castlemaine 500 project outcomes
This report is an example of a Collaborative Outcomes Report (COR) from a community sustainability project in Victoria, Australia. It is titled "How we ran a behaviour change program and the lessons we learnt".Dugong and marine turtle project final report executive summary 2009
This page describes the reporting outcomes of an Australian Government conducted COR process on a Dugong and Marine Turtle Project in Northern Australia.EPE Week: Lee-Anne Molony on Collaborative Outcomes Reporting
This AEA365 blog, written by Lee-Anne Molony a Principal Consultant at Clear Horizon, provides a brief overview onPerformance Story
This is a concise description of ‘Performance Story’ written by Jess Dart and John Mayne for the Sage ‘Encyclopaedia of Evaluation’.Developing a performance story report
This guide outlines a step-by-step participatory process for developing a performance story report in the context of ‘performance story evaluation’ and natural resource management, but can be used for monitoring and in other contexts.Listening to smaller voices: using an innovative participatory tool for children affected by HIV and AIDS to assess a life skills programme
This paper details the evaluation of a Life Skills programme implemented by Family Health International (FHI 360), India.Report on outcomes and get everyone involved: the participatory performance story reporting technique
This paper outlines the background and philosophy ofDFAT design and monitoring and evaluation standards
These updated design, monitoring and evaluation standards from the Australian Government aim to "improve the quality and use of Design and M&E products, and to integrate evaluative thinking into everyday work".NSW Government evaluation framework
This framework has been developed to guide the consistent and transparent evaluation of government programs in the New South Wales (Australia) State Government to inform decision making on policy directions, program design and implementatioEvaluating complex and unfolding interventions in real time
This article from Tom Ling outlines the use of uncertainty and complexity in a Theory of Change-based approach to evaluating complex interventions.Evaluating the Complex
This book, edited by Forss, Marra and Schwartz, provides a detailed discussion of different aspects of complexity and cases of evaluations with particular attention to issues of causal attribution and contribution.How to Evaluate equity-focused and gender-responsive interventions in complex and dynamic environments
These reading materials from a webinar presented by Michael Quinn Patton for My M&E, discusses the concept of complexity and details how to conduct an evaluation in a complex and dynamic environment.Guidelines for selection of evaluation consultants for project evaluations
This guide from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) provides detailed guidance on the selection of evaluation consultants and includes a number of checklists that can be uDo health improvement programmes fit with MRC guidance on evaluating complex interventions?
This article, authored by MacKenzie, O'Donnell, Halliday, E.