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Better Value for Money: An organising framework for management and measurement of VFM indicators
This paper, written by Julian Barr and Angela Christie for ITAD, outlines an organising framework as a means for better understanding, expressing and enabling judgements to be reached on Value for Money inDeveloping an Evaluation Plan
This guide from Community Toolbox looks at why an evaluation plan is essential part of an evaluation.SPC Logical Framework Approach Training Project
This learning resource, produced by the Pacific Research & Evaluation Associates (PREA) for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), aims to introduce users to tExpectations about identifying and documenting “Lessons Learned”
This guide by Rick Davies offers advice on identifying and appropriately writing effective Lessons Learnt paragraphs.What is a lesson learnt?
A short one-page guide on identifying Lessons Learnt and best practices, which also offers tips on formulating Lessons Learnt paragraphs.Reflections on innovation, assessment and social change processes: A SPARC case study, India
This paper, written by Sheela Patel, provides a case study of the development of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) in India.UNICEF: Innovations, lessons learned and good practices
This archived page on UNICEF's website brings together a range of lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that have emerged from UNICEF's programs and evaluations over the five years to 2013.Measuring empowerment? Ask them: Quantifying qualitative outcomes from people’s own analysis
This paper, written by Dee Jupp and Sohel Ibn Ali with contribution from Carlos Barahona for Sida, uses the experiences of a social movement in Bangladesh to demonstrate how empowerment can be measured by those who are being empowered.Geographic Information Systems: Tools for Community Mapping
Phil Rabinowitz's chapter in CHINA.org gives a detailed overview of GIS mapping.Dr. Richard Kreuger on qualitative listening
In this interview in The Listening Resource blog (August 29th, 2013), Susan Eliot talks to Dr.Timeline of project activities: Early childhood nutrition and anaemia prevention project
Produced for the Early Childhood Nutrition and Anaemia Prevention Project, Fred Hollows Foundation, this Summary Report presents a large amount of non-numeric data effectively through the use of a timeline of the project.Artineh Samkian and Joelle Greene on graphic timelines to capture qualitative process data
This blog post in AEA365: A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators by Artineh Samkian and Joelle Greene discusses the use of Graphic Timelines as a way of presenting data to stakeholders that was both accessibVisualizing process: How to create a stakeholder-friendly graphic timeline of process data
This presentation at the AEA Evaluation 2013 Conference by Artineh Samkian, the University of Southern California, and Joel Greene, Harder+Company, gives an overview of the steps involved in creating a graphic timeline that is accessible toA Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research
This paper, written by James Mahoney and Gary Goertz, contrasts the quantitative and quantitative research traditions against 10 areas in order to dispel some of the misunderstandings that have arisen between them The ten areas are comparedCase Study Research: Design and Methods
This book from Robert K. Yin provides detailed guidance on case study research. Outlining a clear definition of the case study method, the book also looks at design and analysis techniques that can be used in case study research.Theory of change approach to climate change adaptation programming
Written by Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn & Patrick Pringle, this paper looks at theory of change (ToC) and why it is useful for climate change adaptation programming.Twelve reasons why climate change adaptation M&E is challenging
This is the first guidance note in a series of three from the SEA Change Community of Practice and UKCIP that focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation projects.Selecting indicators for climate change adaptation programming
Written by Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn & Patrick Pringle, this note provides guidance on selecting appropriate indicators in program planning and assessment.Choosing visual properties for successful visualizations
This whitepaper, by Noah Iliinsky, IBM Visualisation Expert, covers the various visual properties of data visualisation and how to appropriately apply them to various types of data.Process Tracing - Draft Protocol
This protocol from Oxfam GB is aimed at supporting the understanding and use of process tracing when evaluating policy influencing interventions.The Joys of Using Haiku Deck to Make Gorgeous Slides
This blog post from Susan Kistler for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) provides guidance on using Haiku Deck for presentation slide decks.The seven secrets of good monitoring and evaluation
This is a webinar that was given by Jess Dart for Enabling Change and Innovation (archived link) on her seven secrets of good monitorinQualitative data analysis using data displays
This paper in the Nurse Researcher journal by Tracey Williamson and Andrew Long walks readers through the benefits of using a number of different types of data displays when presenting qualitatImpact Diagrams/Indicators for key EC intervention sectors
This web page from the European Commission (EC) sets out an intervention logic and a set of example indicators covering the outcome and impact levels for different sectors of EC interventions.Jamaican youth risk and resiliency behaviour survey 2006: Data use calendar
This report on a community-based survey about Jamaican youth risk and resiliency behaviour conducted in 2006 on behalf of USAID contains an example of a data use calendar as Appendix 9 (page 158).UK Data Archive: Managing and Sharing Data
This document, created by the UK Data Archive, gives researchers an overview of the best practices involved in data management for long-term, accessible data storage, protection and archive.Real-time learning for social innovations: facilitating evaluation and strategy learning circles
This presentation, given by Carolyn Cohen for Matan/United Way Israel outlines the process for using Evaluation and Strategy Learning Circles.Estudio de casos
El estudio de casos tiene un potencial importante como método de investigación de la sociedad.Qualitative Methods in Rapid Turn-Around Health Services Research
This video presentation by Alison B. Hamilton for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) focuses on qualitative study design, data collection, and fundamentals of data analysis.Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Applied Social Research Methods)
This book focuses by Robert K. Yin on case study design and analysis as a distinct research tool with wide applicability.Lessons in theory of change: experiences from CCAFS
This paper, written by Christine C.Designing and Conducting Research With Online Interviews
This first chapter of Janet Salmons' book, Cases in Online Interview Research, provides guidance to designing and conducting online interviews for research.