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Evaluation Capacity Development Group toolkit
The Evaluation Capacity Development Group (ECDG) created this toolkit to help organizations become more evaluative by providing information, conducting training, and facilitating organizational change.Evaluability Assessment: Examining the Readiness of a Program for Evaluation
This guide from the Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center is aimed at providing juvenile justice program managers with a guide to implementing evaluability assessment in order to ensuEqual access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit
This toolkit aims to help communication for development (C4D) organisations to demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of their initiatives, listen to their listeners, continuously learn, and feed this learning back into the organisation and iMerit determination rubrics
The following example can be found in Appendix H of the Final Evaluation Report of the Recognised Seasonal Employer Policy, which details merit determination rubrics involving a rating, worker dimensions and employer dimensions.An example of the use of Rubrics in Humanitarian Evaluation
"The IASC Gender Marker is a tool that codes, on a 0-2 scale, whether or not a humanitarian project is designed well enough to ensure that women/girls and men/boys will benefit equally from it or that it will advance gender equality&nbTheory of Change Community
Theory of Change Community is a website useful for anyone interested in or working with Theory of Change.How to build M&E systems to support better government
This volume highlights the experience of several countries which have succeeded in building a well-functioning government M&E system, including Chile, Colombia and Australia.Criteria for assessing the evaluability of Theories of Change
This blog post by Rick Davies discusses the criteria identified to assess the evaluability of Theory of Change (ToC).Useful Tools for Engaging Young People in Participatory Evaluation
A toolkit developed as part of a formative evaluation by the UNICEF Regional Office of young people's participation in the CEE/CIS region in 2005.Children and participation: Research, monitoring and evaluation with children and young people
This resource provides an overview of good practice when involving children in research and evaluation, including a rationale for doing this, ethical issues to address and possible tools to use.Excel for evaluation
This website, created by Ann Emery, provides a series of short videos on using Microsoft Excel to analyze data.Terms of reference: Evaluation advisory group – clinical placement planning
This Terms of Reference from the Victorian Department of Health in Australia provides an example of the role, function and protocols of an Evaluation Advisory Group.Developing and Using an Evaluation Consultation Group
This guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a detailed outline of the need for and the process of developing an Evaluation Consulting Group (ECG) or Advisory Group.Confirming and disconfirming cases
This overview from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides a definition and outline of the reasons for using the confirming and disconfirming option.Desperately seeking dissonance identifying the disconfirming case in qualitative evidence synthesis
This article from the Qualitative Health Research Journal outlines the research undertaken to discover how disconfirming cases are handled in reviews of qualitative research.Using wait list control groups in evaluation
This overview from the American Evaluation Association's AEA 365 blog page, provides an overview of using waitlist control groups.Convenience sampling
This overview from Laerd Dissertation provides an outline of using convenience sampling and provides an explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of using this option.Developing a logic model: Teaching and training guide
This guide from the University of Wisconsin-Extension provides a range of activities that introduce the reader to creating and using logic models.Evaluation of the Aboriginal Research pilot program (Canada)
"The program had two main objectives: to facilitate research on a range of policy-related issues that are of concern to Canada's Aboriginal peoples, including urban issues, economic development, the environment, education, research ethics,Lifting the lens: developing a logic for a complicated policy
The impetus for this article comes from the authors’ experience of developing an intervention logic during a two-year evaluation of a complicated government policy.Creating program logic models
This book chapter identifies the basic elements of a program logic model.Causal loop diagrams: Little known analytical tool
Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD) is a tool used in system dynamics to develop an understanding of complex systems.Using Sensemaker to measure, learn and communicate about smallholder farmer inclusion
VECO, a Belgian NGO, describes the use of Sensemaker, a pattern detection software for analyzing 'micro-narratives, to measure the market inclusivity of smallholder farmers in Vietnam and Ecuador.Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming In UNDP
This report, from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), outlines the findings of an evaluation of gender mainstreaming in the UNDP in 2005.Evaluation and Gender Mainstreaming in the European Social Fund
This webpage from The European Community of Practice on Gender Mainstreaming (Gender-CoP) provides details, including copies of all presentations, from the Conference on EvaluationBuilding Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This video from the Center on the Developing Child demonstrates how a theory of change was developed for improving child outcomes through the development of adult capabilities.Impact Evaluation Databases: Can You Find What You’re Looking For?
This blog post from William Savedoff of the Center for Global Development provides a list of databases that can be used for finding impact evaluations, particularly those that include studJ-PAL South Asia webinar: Evaluation Methods
This webinar from Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia provides detailed discussion and examples of two evaluation methods: Randomized Control Trials (RCStakeholder Participation In Evaluation
This forum discussion from Ranjani.K.Murthy on the Gender and Evaluation website, analyses some of the difficulties and constraints that evaluators face in ensuring the partValues and evaluation
This blog post from Benita Williams focuses on how our perspectives as an evaluator are heavily influenced by the values that we bring with us.Probability sample
This entry from the Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods provides a detailed overview of probability sampling and the different kPurposive sampling
This entry from the Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods provides a detailed overview of purposive sampli