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What are the implications/opportunities for development practice?
This is Part 3 of a three part series of video lectures conducted by USAID on complexity.Designing for Action: Principles of Effective Sustainability Measurement
This report from the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability provides detailed guidance for decision makers on measuring for effective sustainability.Emerging directions and challenges in survey methods
This slideshow, developed by Jolene Smyth for the The Evaluators Institute, looks at new ideas in survey design and also some of the issues that may be of concern when one is conducting a survey.Save the pies for dessert
This paper, written by Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge, presents a range of arguments on why you should not use pie charts.The development and utility of a program theory: Lessons from an evaluation
This article, written by Tim Clement and Christine Bigby, looks at the use and development of program theory in human service organisations.Lessons learned
This overview by Michael Quinn Patton and Ricardo A. Millett provides a definition and discussion of how lessons learned can be derived and from what sources.Reconstruction of Program Logic Models as an Essential Component of Program Evaluation
This presentation, given by Alexey Kuzmin at the AEA 2012 conference, outlines common problems with program logic models and provides suggestions on how to fix them during the evaluation.Four things policy-makers need to know about social media data and real time analytics.
This blog post by Ella McPherson for the London School of Economics and Political Science, Impact Blog looks at the lessons that can be learned from the ethical and methodologicalBuilding Blocks of Impact Evaluation
This video guide, produced by UNICEF, summarises the different elements of impact evaluation and options for planning and managing its various stages.CausalImpact: A new open-source package for estimating causal effects in time series
This blogpost, written by Mary Radomile for R-bloggers, looks at the open-source R package CausalImpact which can be used for causal analyses.Encouraging innovation in development organizations
This blog post by Linda Raftree discusses the relationship between innovation and ICTs.The use of monitoring and evaluation in agriculture and rural development projects
The document reviews monitoring and evaluation practises carried out in agricultural and rural development projects, financed by the World Bank.Systems concepts in action: a practitioner's toolkit
The book, authored by Bob Williams and Richard Hummelbrunner, is focused on the practical use of systems ideas.Democratic governance and evaluation
This paper, presented by Anders Hanberger at the Sixth EES (European Evaluation Society) Conference in Berlin, Germany (2004) argues that governance, democracy and evaluation impact each in different ways.Evaluation as a democratic process: promoting inclusion, dialogue, and deliberation
This issue of New Directions for Evaluation focuses on democratic evaluation with a particular emphasis on inclusive practices which emphasise participation and collaboration.What is democratic evaluation?
This article from Robert Picciotto provides an overview of democratic evaluation, particularly with reference to its use in the European Union context.Bigger, better data and resilience: what’s the link?
This blog post from Linda Raftree outlines the key discussions that were held at a NYC Technology Salon examining the link between big data and resilienceParticipatory and Inclusive Approaches to Disability Program Evaluation
This article, written by Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher & Robert Strike, examines why evaluations of disability programs rarely use inclusive approaches that engage people with cognitive disabilities.A Comparative Study of Evaluation Policies and Practices in Development Agencies
This paper, written by Marta Foresti with Christina Archer, Tammie O’Neil and Richard Longhurst for Agence Française de Développement, analyses the evaluation policies and practices of nine difEight Strategies for Research to Practice
This primer, written by Eva Canoutas, Lauren Hart and Trinity Zan for FHI360, outlines eight strategies that can be used to facilitate the use of research evidence in development practice.Empowerment Evaluation
This webinar, given by David Fetterman for the American Evaluation Association's Coffee Break series, provides an overview of empowerment evaluation by outlining examples of its use from around tSampling - Yale University
This course paper defines three different simplified sampling options.Contents Simple random sampling Stratified random sampling Multistage random samplingFunder evaluator dialogue on complexity
This presentation by Jonny Morell focuses on the need to promote dialogue between evaluators and program funders/designers on the implications of complex behavior.Principles focused evaluation webinar
This webinar (recorded January 23, 2018) features an interview with Michael Quinn Patton and discusses his latest book - Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE - and the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach, exploring its relevanSystems thinking: A way to maximise program effectiveness
A short animated video highlighting how systems thinking can be used in program evaluation to maximize program effectiveness, produced by Chris Lovato, Beverly Parsons, and Kylie Hutchinson.Enhancing evaluation use: Insights from internal evaluation units
This book, co-edited by Marlène Läubli Loud and John Mayne, offers invaluable insights from real evaluators who share strategies they have adopted through their own experiences in evaluation.Innovations in evaluation: How to choose, develop and support them
This brief opens up some of the issues and questions about why and how to adopt innovations in evaluation, and discusses how innovations can be useful in addressing eight long standing challenges in evaluation.Preparing For GDPR / What's next with GDPR?
Organised by DevResults in partnership with Sonjara and SurveyCTO, this recorded panel discussion took place on May 23rd, 2018, two days before the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect.Question and questionnaire design
This chapter Jon A. Krosnick and Stanley Presser presents a number of recommendations about survey design based on conventional wisdom and a review of the methodological literature.Why do we avoid evaluation?
This is a 20-minute presentation on evaluation use developed by Alexey Kuzmin (Process Consulting Company, Moscow, Russia) in collaboration with the ILO International Training Centre (ILO ITC, Turin, Italy).Successful public policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
This book is a collection of 20 examples of successful public policies in Australia and New Zealand. It aims to reset the agenda for teaching, research and dialogue on public policy performance.Sketcho frenzy: The basics of visual note-taking
This is a short (3-minute) video by Claudine Delfin about the benefits of visual note-taking. It's also a good example of a video that has been created from a visual note-taking process.