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Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys - Round 3
This website from Childinfo(archived link) outlines the methodology and findings from multiple indicator cluster surveys that were conducted in order to moniCollecting Evaluation Data: Direct Obervation
This paper from the Learning Store, provides an in depth guide to using direct observation as a means to collect evaluation information.Conducting Focus Group Interviews
This guide examines Focus Groups and how they can be useful to extract information. Step by step guidance is provided on how to conduct the focus group interview to help ensure high-quality results.Your detailed evaluation report
This online guide to creating final evaluation reports provides a setp-by-step approach to developing a final report.Creating Rubrics
This web page gives detailed guided assistance in creating rubrics.How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard
Written by Marty Weintraub for the marketing and advertising blog AimClearBlog.com, this guide offers a detailed, step-by-step overview of creating a reputational monitoring dashboard using the freGoogle Fusion Tables
A free online mapping service, Google Fusion Tables offers an easy-to-use, highly customisable tool for visualising table data in map form and posting maps online.Logic Model Workbook
Prepared by the Innovation Network, this workbook offers a “do-it-yourself guide” to the development and use of a range of logic models, including step-by-step description of the process required for thTransportation benefit-cost analysis
This website, written in the context of transportation policy, is of use to any investigator looking for step-by-step guidance on the cost-benefit analysis process.Making choices in health: WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis
This detailed guide provides investigators with a rigorous technical discussion of the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) procedure, written from a public health perspective, as a method for assessing the efficiency of an intervention.Cost-effectiveness analysis, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) online guide offers a detailed and interactive introduction to the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) process. The guide covers the following:Guidance Note on Developing Terms of Reference (ToR) for Evaluations
This guide from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is aimed at providing support to staff in the creation of Terms of Reference for evaluation.European Commission - Terms of Reference Guide
This guide from the European Commission is designed to support staff in the development of Terms of Reference for evaluation reports.Indicators for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals
This publication contains complete and authoritative information on the concepts, definitions, implementation and sources of data for the 48 official Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicators.USAID: Evaluation Policy
"This policy is intended to provide clarity to USAID staff, partners and stakeholders about the purposes of evaluation, the types of evaluations that are required and recommended, and the approach for conducting, disseminating and using evaDECI: Final Technical Report
This Final Technical Report for the Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICTD (DECI) programme provides a final evaluation of the activities, outputs, outcomes and recommendations from tAn introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions
This guide provides a non-technical introduction to randomised controlled trials (RCTs).Selecting Impact/Outcome Evaluation Designs: A Decision-Making Table and Checklist Approach
This article from Paul Duignan is aimed at supporting evaluators decide which impact/outcome evaluation design is most appropriate to use.Development Impact Evaluation Initiative
This World Bank website provides links to a variety of briefs, conference papers, thematic programs and working papers on impact evaluation.Steps - Steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change
This tool from Margaret Sanger Center International provides a step-by-step process for planning, monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects.Template for evaluation plan
ContentsUnderstanding influence: the episode studies approach
In this chapter from the book, The Politics of Trade, published by the International DevelopmJoint after-action review of our humanitarian response to the tsunami crisis
This paper outlines the findings from the Joint After Action Review conducted to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Useful Tools for Engaging Young People in Participatory Evaluation
In this guide each tool is presented in a user-friendly format to enable the practitioner to easily put it to use.Focus Groups - People and Participation.net
This webpage from People and Participation.net gives an overview of the focus group process including providing a number of case studies demonstrating their use.World Cafe - People and Participation
This guide provides detailed information on how to effectively use The World Cafe. Additional information covers suitable participants, cost / time requirements and appropriate circumstances of use.Bar Charts and Histograms
This website provides a clear explanation on how to make histograms and bar charts includng a nine minute video and exercises to test your understanding. ExcerptPensions, Poverty and Household Investments in Bolivia
This paper analyses the effect of the BONOSOL pension on the well-being of elderly Bolivians and finds a range of positive effects of the program on the lives of impoverished households.Developing a logic model or theory of change, community toolbox, University of Kansas
This chapter from the University of Kansas Work Group for Community Health and Development 'Community Toolbox' contains a detailed overview of logic models and theory of change development relevant to the related construction of the realistThe World Cafe toolkit
The World Cafe website offers several free tools for supporting the set-up and facilitation of a World Cafe session. The following tools are available for download on the World Cafe website:The River Chart
Developed by Geoff Parcell and Chris Collison in their book No More Consultants: We Know More Than We Think, “The River Diagram” is a useful tool designed for visualising the results of self-assessment and peer-learning data from multiUK Data Service Variable and Question Bank (formally the Survey Question Bank)
The UK Data Service Variable and Question Bank is an online repository of questionnaires and variables, from a large number of UK and cross-national social surveys dating to the mid-1990s.