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The most significant change technique
This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) outlines the process for using Most Significant Change in evaluation. It provides a step by step process that can be followed to ensure its effective implementation.A guide to assessing needs
This book, written by Ryan Watkins, Maurya West Meiers and Yusra Laila Visser for The World Bank, provides detailed guidance on needs assessment during the early stages of project development.Set-theoretic methods for the social sciences: A guide to qualitative comparative analysis
This book, by Schneider and Wagemann, provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of set theory to model causality and applications of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), the most developed form of set-theoretic method, foAn introduction to applied data analysis with qualitative comparative analysis
This article by Nicolas Legewie provides an introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It discusses the method's main principles and advantages, including its concepts.What is qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)?
This slide show from Charles C Ragin, provides a detailed explanation, including examples, that clearly demonstrates the question, 'What is QCA?'.Storytelling
This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on the use of storytelling as a way of effectively communicating both emotional and factual content to contextualise the ideas or experiences being shared.Outcome mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs
This book by Sarah Earl, Fred Carden and Terry Smutylo takes an original approach to assessing development impacts by focusing on the way in which people relate to each other and to their environment rather than simply evaluating the producUnderstanding process tracing
This 2011 paper, from David Collier, outlines a new framework for process tracing to achieve greater systemisation of qualitative methods. This version includes some reflections in 2019 on subsequent developments.Organizational development impact evaluation: Ethiopia country program
This paper from Pact Ethiopia is the final report from three external consultants who were commissioned to evaluate ten years of capacity building interventions by the organisation.Guideline for Preparing ToR for Evaluating Project/Program/Organization Performances/Results
This guide from CARE Ethiopia is designed to assist staff develop Terms of Reference for evaluations. Contents BackgroundEvaluation of a community managed forest project in Humbo, Ethiopia
This paper gives a practical description of an evaluation of the World Vision Humbo Community Managed Natural Regeneration project in Ethiopia.Using sensemaker to understand girls' education in Ethiopia
This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education among pastoralist communities in the Afar region of Ethiopia.Assessing rural transformations: Piloting a qualitative impact protocol in Malawi and Ethiopia
This working paper reports on findings from four pilot studies of a protocol for qualitative impact evaluation of NGO-sponsored rural development projects in Malawi and Ethiopia.Can we obtain the required rigour without randomisation? Oxfam GB’s non-experimental Global Performance Framework
This paper, written by Karl Hughes and Claire Hutchings for the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), looks at Oxfam GB's practice of annual random selection of projects for evaluationMonitoring and evaluating advocacy: Companion to the advocacy toolkit
This guide, written by Julia Coffman for UNICEF, looks at strategies and features of evaluations that focus on assessing the impact of advocacy campaigns.QuIP in action: Save the Children case study
This resource provides an example of the use of the Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP) approach in evaluations of Save the Children's programmes.Evaluation of the European Commission’s Support to the United Republic of Tanzania: Terms of Reference
These Terms of Reference (ToR) from the European Commission (EC) were set out to outline the evaluation of the EC's support for Tanzania from 2001 to 2007.KAP action research study on violence against children
In 2014 UNICEF Tanzania Country Office in collaboration with Government commissioned University of Huddersfield – the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies in partnership with Mzumbe University in Tanzania, to undertake a study entitled:Review of the use of ‘Theory of Change’ in international development
This report, commissioned by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and authored by Isabel Voge, reviews how theory of chanThe role of research in pro-poor dairy policy shift in Kenya
This working paper forms part of the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI’s) and Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI’s) ‘Process and Partnership for ProCapacity development: We know it’s important, but how do we measure its outcomes?
This resources describes how Global Giving developed a system of using storytelling "as a way to measure capacity and performance of organizations in the field." (Lake)Kenya national monitoring and evaluation policy
The Kenya National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy provides an overall guidance on the establishment and implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) function in the public sector.Use of administrative data for the COVID-19 response
This blog introduces a video of a panel session describing how administrative data – routinely collected data – might be used to help with the response to the COVID 19 pandemic.Primary school deworming in Kenya
This evaluation by The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) used random phase-in RCT to evaluate a school de-worming program in Kenya.Mid-term evaluation of the Kenya civil society strengthening program
This mid-term evaluation report from USAID, provides an overview and analysis of its Kenya Civil Society Strengthening Program (KCSSP) which aims to strengthen the capacity of CSO's in a number of key areInformal traders lock horns with the formal milk industry: The role of research in pro-poor dairy policy shift in kenya
This paper, written by C. Leksmono, J. Young, N. Hooton, H. Muriuki and D.Footprint evaluation webinar 1: Identifying points of nexus between human and natural systems
In part one of this three-part webinar series, Andy Rowe and Patricia Rogers discuss what was learnt during theRolling five-year development evaluation work plan 2014-2015 to 2018-2019
This Rolling Five-Year Development Evaluation Work Plan (2014-2015 - 2018-2019) from Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development sets out the corporate evaluations that will be undertaken and the support that will be proviGuidance for the Development of Evaluation Terms of Reference
This guide from CARE Sierra Leone provides an outline of how Terms of Reference should be developed for CARE evaluation projects.Climate change impact and adaptation study for Bangkok metropolitan region
This report form the World Bank is the primary output from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's analysis of climate change impact and adaptation in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region.More than a pretty picture: Using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions
This World Bank volume offers detailed guidance on the use of Small Area Estimation poverty maps in research and policy making. Information, guidance and tools are organised around the following broad themes:Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: a conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making
This paper, written by Andreas Neef and Dieter Neubert, proposes a new framework for participatory agricultural research.