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Amplifying nonprofit voices: Bridging the advocacy evaluation gap
This evaluation research report aims to better understand nonprofit advocates' ability to evaluate their advocacy capacity, strategies, and tactics; identify their evaluation needs; and develop recommendations on advocate-friendly evaluatioThe most significant change: Using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation - insight guide
This article describes experiments done by Insight using participatory video(PV) for monitoring and evaluation, in particular the combination of Most Significant Change (MSC) ideas with PV.Press release example: Balancing accountability and improvement
This example of a press release discusses the release of a voluntary statewide survey about patients’ experiences with inpatient care at Massachusetts hospitals.Supporting good evaluation
This presentation and paper from the Bruner Foundation guides the reader through the evaluation process and provides a step by step process for commissioning an evaluation.Multi-criteria analysis: a manual
Aimed at providing guidance for Government Officials and other evaluation practitioners this manual provides an overview of techniques which do not necessarily rely on monetary valuations, namely the Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA).Communicating and reporting on an evaluation
This module helps private voluntary organization staff facilitate learning among individuals, groups, and organizations by communicating and reporting evaluation processes and findings more effectively.Increasing participation in evaluation – Bruner Foundation guide
The "Increasing participation in evaluation" bulletin was developed by Anita Baker with Beth Bruner to help organizations integrate evaluative thinking into their organizational practice.Multimedia project evaluation rubric
This rubric from Teacherworld.com is designed for the evaluation of multimedia projects and it contains eleven criteria, with four grading options.Writing a good executive summary – UNICEF guide
This UNICEF guide provides a clear outline for writing an executive summary.Purposes of assessment - Keystone guide
This webpage from Keystone Accountability outlines the six major reasons that social organizations monitor, assess and report their performance and results.Guidance on using the revised logical framework
This guide from the UK Department of International Development (DFID) aims to help project managers/evaluators make the best use of logical framework (logframe) in designing and managing projects.Enhancing program performance with logic models
Developed by the University of Wisconsin Extension service, this resource provides an introduction to developing and using a particular version of the results chain.Conducting online surveys
This book is a complete guide to conducting survey research using digital modalities.SWOT analysis
Section 9 of this toolkit from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) provides guidance on the use of SWOT analysis to find the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a project or plan.UFE Modules presented at SLEVA, Sri Lanka, June 2011
These Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE) modules are modified versions of the Utilization-Focused Evaluation simplified step-by-step modules that were developed for the SLEVA conference in 2011.Analysis of variance and design of experiments
This online course from Penn State University, provides 12 lessons focusing on various aspects of this option.Utilization-focused evaluation simplified step-by-step modules
These Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE) modules were developed by the Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICTD (DECI) project to provide a more simplified approach to uMeasuring capacity
What is the measure of capacity? This paper on Measuring Capacity attempts to help development practitioners unbundle this question.The capacity development results framework
"The Capacity Development Results Framework (CDRF or the Framework) is a powerful new& approach to the design, implementation, monitoring, management, and evaluation of development programs." Otoo, S., Agapitova, N., & Behrens, J.Learning purposefully in capacity development (2008)
This paper examines how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) does, or could, make a difference to Capacity Development (CD).A balanced approach to monitoring and evaluating capacity and performance
This study, authored by Paul Engel, Niels Keijzer and Tony Land for the European Centre for Development Policy Management focuses on how capacity develops endogenously within an organisation or system.Africa capacity indicators 2011: Capacity development in fragile states
This report from the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) provides data and analysis on the key issues and challenges facing capacity development in Africa.Evaluating capacity development: Experiences from research and development organizations
This book, developed by ISNAR's Evaluating Capacity Development Project, explains how an action-learning approach was used to conduct six evaluation studies over the course of 3 years.NGO partner survey 2010
This paper from Keystone Accountability describes the findings of a study which surveyed a range of southern NGO's who partner with 25 specific northern NGO's in order assess their performance on a range of measures.Monitoring and evaluation of capacity-building interventions in the health sector in developing countries
This guide from Measure Evaluation outlines the concepts of capacity building, evaluates the strengths and limitations of current methods of measuring capacity and provides a design for a capacitReturn on investment: The long term impact of building healthcare capacity in Africa
This report from Accordia Global Health Foundation outlines five approaches to long-term capacity development and systems strengthening which are viewed through the lens of long-term impact eA guide to participatory monitoring of behaviour change communication for HIV/AIDS
This guide, authored by Kirrin Gill, Imogen Fua and Ekong Emah for Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), provides a step by step process that supports program managers implement a participatZambian HIV/AIDS learning initiative midterm evaluation report
"Pact’s Zambian HIV/AIDS Learning Initiative (AFP-A-00-03-00046-00) aims to strengthen the capacity of Zambian NGOs working in the area of HIV/AIDS, and particularly to enhance the ability of these organizations to address the causes and coLocal administration and reform project mid-term evaluation
This Mid-Term Evaluation from USAID provides an assessment of the ongoing Local Administration and Reform project (LAAR) which aims to strengthen governance and social reform in Cambodia.HIV/AIDS targeted interventions: Participatory monitoring and evaluation framework
This set of guidelines from UNICEF was developed to support staff working on HIV and AIDS targeted Internvention (HATI) projects with monitoring and evaluation.Evaluation plan for the aksi stop AIDS (ASA)
This evaluation plan from the Aksi Stop Aids (ASA) projectwas developed as a tool for ensuring agreement on the evaluations’ overall purpoPolicy impacts on inequality: Simple inequality measures
This module from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) demonstrates a range of ways to measure inequality by using the statistical concepts of location, shape and var