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Cracking causality in complex policy contexts
This blog post addresses the challenge of making credible causal claims and discusses experiences from developing the Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QUIP). Author James CopestakeCausal Pathways introductory session: Realist evaluation
This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, by Melanie Punton, is an introduction to Realist Evaluation, a theory-based evaluation approach based on the idea that interventions do not work for everyone, all the time.Causal Pathways introductory session: Causal mapping
This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, by Steve Powell, focused on causal mapping, a tool for mapping causal relationships in evaluation, including visualizing them.Straws-in-the-wind, hoops and smoking guns: What can process tracing offer to impact evaluation?
This discussion paper, written by Melanie Punton and Katharina Welle, looks at the potential use of Process Tracing in an impact evaluation context.Comparing QuIP with thirty other approaches to impact evaluation
This resource outlines how the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) compares to 30 other impact evaluation approaches.Causal Pathways 2023 Symposium and 2024 introductory sessions
This series of webinars was first presented at the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, which focused on "connecting, learning, and building a shared understanding of the evaluation and participatory practices that make causal pathways more visible"What is process tracing actually tracing?
This paper from Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pederson provides a comprehensive overview of process tracing (PT).Demystifying evaluation: Communication strategies for making evaluation more engaging and more inclusive (Webinar)
In this gLOCAL 2024 event, GEI explores what communication strategies work best to make evaluation more engaging and more inclusive for various audiences in different regions of the world.AEA365: PE Standards Week: Thinking about standards past and present, at home and abroad
This blog, written by Brad Watts for AEA365, introduces the program evaluation standards week series of blogs and provides examples of different approaches to evaluation standards.