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Equitable evaluation initiative
This initiative is building knowledge about how to align evaluation practices with an equity approach and how to use evaluation as a tool for advancing equity.Culturally responsive, Indigenous, and equitable evaluation resource list
This document is a "living" list (not exhaustive) of resources for Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE), Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation (CRIE), and Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation (CREE).Who counts? The power of participatory statistics
This workshop by Jeremy Holland for the Institute of Development Studies was streamed live on May 1st, 2014.Participatory learning and action
Participatory Learning and Action is a subscription based journal published bi-annually by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).Evidence-based policy: A realist perspective
This book, written by Ray Pawson, provides a critique of the meta-analytic approach and argues that the realist synthesis is a better way of understanding program theory, therefore enabling properly targeted policies to address the conStrengthening the regression discontinuity design using additional design elements: A within-study comparison
This paper compares the regression discontinuity design (RDD) to the randomised clinical trial approach and proposes adding untreated comparisons to RDD to mitigate weaknesses in the method.UN Women
This website from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, provides a wide variety of resources to support the implementation of gender equality around the globe.An overview of monitoring and evaluation for adaptive management (working paper #1)
This paper is the first in the BetterEvaluation Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptive Management working paper series.What is adaptive management and how does it work? (working paper #2)
This is the second paper in the BetterEvaluation Working Paper Series, Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptive Management.Real-time evaluation (Working paper #4)
Real-time evaluation (RTE) has been practised and documented over the past 20 years, initially in humanitarian projects.Evaluation of Legal Aid NSW Civil Law Service for Aboriginal Communities
This resource describes a mixed-methods, Aboriginal-led evaluation of the Civil Law Service for Aboriginal Communities (CLSAC).Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating communities
This book from the Center for Digital Storytelling outlines the philosophy and practice involved with using digital storytelling in a development context.Better late than never: Workforce supply implications of later entry into nursing
This report analyses nurse workforce data from 2005 and concludes that the lack of interest in nursing may have been temporary, mainly confined to young people choosing their first career.Collecting evaluation data: Surveys
This concise guide, prepared by Ellen Taylor-Powell and Carol Hermann for the University of Wisconsin Extension, offers a useful introduction to telephone-specific and broader survey design approaches.Q methodology: A sneak preview
This paper, authored by Job van Exel and Gjalt de Graaf aims to provide a detailed overview of the basics of Q methodology for those who need easily accessible information on this research strategy.Postcard newsletter evaluation
This article describes how postcards were used to conduct a simple and inexpensive evaluation of a newsletter.Matrix chart guide
This guide from Many Eyes provides guidance, including examples, on constructing matrix charts using the IBM Many Eyes software.Navigating sustainability: measurement, evaluation and action
This paper from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) aims to document the evolution in thinking about measuring sustainability and distill crucial lessons for the future.Time to listen: Hearing people on the receiving end of international aid
This guide reports on the ideas, insights, and analyses of almost 6,000 people who were beneficiaries of international aid projects.Evaluating the effects of international advocacy networks
This paper looks at some of the challenges that are present when evaluating the effects of the advocacy work of international change networks and provides an approach which may be used in these situations.Tools for policy impact: A handbook for researchers
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), as part of its Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme, has been looking at the links between research and policy for several years.Complex adaptive systems: A different way of thinking about health care systems
This paper, authored by Beverly Sibthorpe, Nicholas Glasgow and Duncan Longstaff for the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, provides a brief synopsis of literature relevant to CAS and healthcare systems.Audience engagement strategy book
This guide, written by Sheila B Robinson for Potent Presentations, outlines various strategies that can be used in presentations to encourage an audience's intellectual engagement with you and your message.Exploring the science of complexity: Ideas and implications for development and humanitarian efforts
This paper, authored by Ben Ramalingam and Harry Jones with Toussaint Reba and John Young for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), explores and reflects on the concepts of complexity science and what they mean for developmentJoint evaluation: Danish-Bhutanese country programme 2000-09
This report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark presents the findings of the evaluation conducted into the collaboration between Denmark's Evaluation Department and the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of the Gross NaMiradi
Miradi is designed to provide project teams with the essential features that they need to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their conservation projects, in other words, to practice good adaptive management.Data cleaning 101
This paper from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School outlines a step-by-step process for verifying that data values are correct or, at the very least, conform to a set of rules through the use of a data cleaning process.NZAID guideline on developing terms of reference for reviews and evaluation
This guide from NZAID provides suggestions on how to develop clear Terms of Reference (TOR) for reviews and evaluations.What is impact evaluation?
This video lecture given by Professor Howard White for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) provides an introduction to the importance of impact evaluation.Using evidence to inform policy
This video lecture given by Beryl Leach for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) focuses on using research evidence in policymaking and programThe theory of change
This video lecture given by Professor Howard White for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) outlines the use and importance of a theory of change in impIntroduction to mixed methods in impact evaluation
This guide, written by Michael Bamberger for InterAction outlines the elements of a mixed methods approach with particular reference to how it can be used in an impact evaluation.