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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.Biodiversity assessment of the REDD community forest project in Oddar Meanchey Cambodia
In this report, the details of field surveys are analysed to provide information on the distribution of birds and mammals in the Oddar Meachney province, Cambodia.Aggregating, presenting and valuing climate change impacts
This report aims to provide a picture of the impact of climate change resulting from the emissions of greenhouse gasses. In preparing the report, the authors took the following into consideration: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.Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Oddar Meanchey Province
This project design document outlines the development of a program to support sustainable forest management and livelihood protection in Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia.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.Horizontal evaluation: Stimulating social learning among peers
This guide published by the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC) provides a detailed overview of Horizontal Evaluation and its uses.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.The Sphere Project handbook: Humanitarian charter and minimum standards in humanitarian response
This publication, "Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Responses", commonly referred to as the Sphere Handbook, was developed by the Sphere Project.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.Fiji education sector independent completion report
This document is a 44-page independent evaluation of AusAID's assistance to the Fiji Education sector over the period of 2003-2009. The success of the program was rated on the following criteria: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.Evaluation strategies for communicating and reporting: guide
This book from Torres, Preskill and Piontek has been designed to support evaluators to incorporate creative techniques in the design, conduct, communication and reporting of evaluation findings.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.Delphi: Face to face
This paper provides a detailed overview of the Delphi technique with a description of a group variation that involves face-to-face discussion.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).