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A cultural protocol for evaluation
This resource explores important dimensions of cultural competency in evaluation. It focuses on cross-cultural understanding and culturally-appropriate attitudes and approaches.Canva
Canva is a very simple, free to use, online infographic creation platform. It has a drag and drop interface and a range of templates that you can adapt.Building a common outcome framework to measure nonprofit performance
This guide from the Urban Institute outlines core indicators for 14 categories of not for profit organisations and then provides a common framework that can be used by all nonprofit programmes.Outcomes and performance indicators: Adult education and family literacy
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of adult education and family literacy programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Advocacy program
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of advocacy programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Affordable housing
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of Affordable Housing Programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Assisted living program
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of assisted living programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Business assistance program
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of Business Assistance Programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Community organizing program
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of Community Organizing Programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Emergency shelter program
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of Emergency Shelter Programs.Outcomes and performance indicators: Employment training/workforce development program
This set of outcome indicators, developed by the Urban Institute, is aimed at supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of Employment Training/Workforce Development Programs.Template: Recording assessment using multiple lines and levels of evidence (mlle) criteria
This template can be used when doing a Multiple Lines and Levels of Evidence analysis, to record all the lines of evidence available for each evaluation question.CDC: Checklist to help focus your evaluation
This checklist, created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), helps you to assess potential evaluation questions in terms of their relevance, feasibility, fit with the values, nature and tStakeholders’ interest in potential evaluation questions
This worksheet from Chapter 5 of the NationEstimated costs for evaluation services depending on the scale of the program being evaluated
The resource provides a guide for the expected costs of various evaluative activities in an Australian context. This resource and the following information was contributed by George Argyrous.Evaluation report writing
What elements should you highlight in your evaluation reports? How can you craft your evaluation reports so they are both readable and useful for program managers? What is the right balance between narrative explanation and data visualization?Grantee MEL capacity assessment
This resource, part of the MEL Toolkit for Grantmakers and Grantees, provides a simple discussion/interview guide to assess grantee capacity across several components of MEL.Grantee reporting menu
This resource outlines the menu of reporting options developed as an approach to reporting that was more flexible and clearer for grantees and provided more insights to program officers.Indicator framework for OSF’s Economic Justice Program
This resource is the framework that the MEL team in the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program developed to compile, categorize, and make sense of a range of different indicators across the program’s grant-making portfolio.Template for developing a portfolio learning strategy
This resource is the template that the Economic Justice Program MEL team developed for the portfolio learning agendas of EJP's inaugural strategy.Organisational capacity building framework
This organisational capacity building framework serves to hold together a set of ideas or practices that comprise a broad approach course of action specifically aimed at assisting local implementing institutions and organisations.Developing and evaluating evaluation budgets: Checklist tool
This checklist is designed to provide assistance to evaluators in developing an evaluation budget, taking 'cost-effectiveness' and 'fiscal responsibility' standards into account.Evaluation design checklist
The checklist provides a set of issues one needs to consider while planning, undertaking and reporting an evaluation and covers the requirements seen in typical requests for evaluation proposals.Evaluation contract checklist
This checklist is designed to help evaluators and clients identify key contractual issues that require agreement before an evaluation can commence.GeneraTOR - Terms of reference template
The GeneraTOR will guide you through writing the different sections of a ToR / RFP. It will generate a word document with your saved information which can then be further refined and/or reviewed by others.Evaluation study terms of reference template
This template from the UK Department for International Development provides an overview of the minimum content required within Terms of Reference for development of an Evaluation Study.Stakeholder participation in monitoring and evaluation
This tool from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides an overview of the process of participatory monitoring.Toolkit on evaluation
This toolkit from UNICEF Egypt Country Office was developed to support staff in the evaluation process in order to improve the quality of evaluation reports and ensure the application of policy andParEvo: A web-assisted process enabling the participatory exploration of alternative futures
ParEvo is a method of developing alternative past histories or future scenarios using a participatory evolutionary process (hence ParEvo).Evaluation Cost
Evaluation Cost es una aplicación de cálculo novedosa diseñada para estimar el coste de un proceso de evaluación de principio a fin de forma rápida y sistemática considerando diferentes grados de complejidad y detalle.Evaluation plans and operations checklist
This checklist from the Evaluation Checklists Project provides a guide to those interested in conducting a preliminary, formative metaevaluation.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).