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Evaluation, valuation, negotiation: some reflections towards a culture of evaluation
This article, "Evaluation, valuation, negotiation: some reflections towards a culture of evaluation" explores the issues of developing standards for an evaluation, when these have not previously been agreed, in a rural development program iSocial media news release webinar with step-by-step guide
This one-hour webinar is an in-depth discussion of the 15 steps to creating a press release. Excerpt The following example is an excerpt from Falkow (2012)Quick tips for planning evaluation reports
This guide from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension, provides a range of tips and advice for planning and writing evaluation reports that are concise and free of jargon.How to Write a Press Release
This webpage from WikiHow outlines a step by step process for writing effective press releases.Social Learning - An explanation using Twitter
This slide show highlights the different elements of social learning with a specific focus on social media, in particular twitter.Participatory Learning for Action (PLA)
This PowerPoint presentation gives a detailed overview of this approach including a range of tools that can be used to gather data.Picture this: Using images to gather and communicate evaluation data
This paper is an overview of a workshop from the Australian Evaluation Society (AES) conference in Perth, 2008 in which the options for using photography and drawn images to gather and communicate evaluatioInsights into participatory video
This handbook from InsightShare provides a detailed account of the purposes and processes involved in running participatory video projects.Using Photos in Evaluation Reports
This blog, by Sherry Boyce, provides a number of tips and tricks to support the use of photos in evaluation reports.Guidelines for Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
These Guidelines from the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) have been developed in order to assist planners, development workers and natural resource managers in stakeholder identification and analysis.DECI - lessons from year 1
This slide show from the Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICT4D (DECI) project outlines the lessons that were learned from the first year of the program.Slide Show Presentation Tips
This website describes some of the 'sins' of slide show presentations and provides some useful tips on how to overcome these problems.12 tips for creating better PowerPoint presentations
This article provides some important advice and tips for creating engaging and unique PowerPoint presentationsUsing postcards to Sudan for a post event evaluation
This short blog describes how post cards were used to conduct an evaluation of a conference.Developing process evaluation questions
This concise guide by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines evaluation questions and outlines the process needed to develop them.Communicating & reporting evaluation processes & findings
This PowerPoint presentation by Hallie Preskill, gives an overview of communicating and reporting and provides examples of some of the tools that can be used to facilitate the process.Developing an evaluation budget
This document is a USAID guide to developing an evaluation budget based on the resources identified in the evaluation Statement Of Work (SOW).Strange Meeting (and a few comments on teleconferencing)
This blog by Nancy White from Full Circle Associates argues that videoconferences need to be interactive and purposeful.She provides four areas to to help improve synchronous online meetings:Enhancing organizational performance, a toolbox for self-assessment
This book provides a tested process for organizational self assessment. It includes tools and techniques and formative assessment practices to help organisations evaluate if they are meeting their goals effectively.Améliorer la performance organisationnelle: Manuel d'auto-évaluation
Ce manuel présente un modèle d'auto-évaluation organisationnelle novateur et opportunément éprouvé.Strategy survival guide
"The Strategy Survival Guide aims to support strategy development and promote strategic thinking in government."Killer {Powerpoint} Slide Titles, and Why You Need Them
This blog from Karen Anderson provides tips and advice on making PowerPoint slide titles that are engaging and attractive to your key stakeholders.Contents Powerpoint Slide Title GuidelinesUnderstanding and measuring women's economic empowerment
Understanding and Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment - Definition, Framework and Indicators is a conceptual guide written with the intention of helping practitioners, researchers and donors design effective, measurable interveDECI literature review
This literature review from the DECI project provides an overview of the literature available in the area of developing evaluation capacity in ICTD with the express purpose of prInstrumental variables methods
This guide from The Urban Institute provides an overview of how instrumental variable methods work along with links to two research examples at the end of the document.Use of most significant change in evaluating school cultures in South Australia
This is a summary of the example of how most significant change (MSC) was used to measure “perceptions of ‘significant change’ in school cultures in South Australia” (Cornu et al 2006)Learning how to learn: eight lessons for impact evaluations to make a difference
This background note from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) outlines some of the key lessons that have been learnt through recent and ongoing work in impact evaluations, utilisation-focused evaluationsWorking with street children: Monitoring and evaluation of a street children project
This monitoring and evaluation handbook is designed to be used by street educators, as well as other people working with street children.Many Eyes Phrase Net Tool
This tool from Many Eyes by IBM Research allows the user to input any text and then create a phrase net that displays the relationships between different words used inThink before you jump (into the social media ocean)
This blog, written specifically for the development sector, discusses some of the issues of using social media in a development context.Blogs in plain English
This short video provides a clear picture as to why blogs are powerful ways for every person to share news and information.Writing for the web
"Writing for the web is unique - it provides an interactive experience for the reader which is very different to traditional print media." (Riches)