The BetterEvaluation Resource Library contains hundreds of curated and co-created resources related to managing, conducting, using, and strengthening capacity for evaluation.
You can use the search field and filtering on this page to find resources that you are interested in or you can browse our extensive list. An alternative way to find resources best suited to your needs is to explore the Rainbow Framework, where you can find resources relating to evaluation methods, approaches and tasks.
Stakeholder participation in monitoring and evaluation
This tool from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides an overview of the process of participatory monitoring.Quick tips - collecting group data: Delphi technique
This resource from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension provides an overview of the Delhi technique and its uses. Preparation, procedures, tips and letters are also used to explain its purpose and use.UNDP measuring capacities tool
This resource on Capacity Indicators, is a compilation of indicators for assessing capability and effectiveness of organizations and the standards of the environment in which they must operate.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 andEvaluation cartoons and comics
This website provides a range of 'stock' cartoons on the evaluation theme.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 inNewsletter template
This website allows you to download a range of newsletter templates for both print and web.Gapminder
Gapminder uses Trendanalyzer software to analyse statistical times series data to produce animated and interactive graphics. Excerpt "Gapminder works on:Extensions, utilities, and scripts available for GIS software
This website, from Stanford University, provides links to a variety of extensions, scripts and utilities for GIS software.Guide to Lifeline, a Tiny Tool
Lifeline is a tool that helps participants assess how the quality of their life has changed over a period and what contributed positively and negatively to that change.Road journey Tiny Tool
Road journey diagrams chart a group or individual’s aims and compare the original aims to the actual developments in a community.Guide to trend analysis, a Tiny Tool
This guide from NGO-IDEAS provides a detailed description of the purposes and uses of its Trend Analysis Tiny Tool.ParEvo: 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.Indigenous evaluation toolkit: An actionable guide for organisations serving American Indian / Alaska Native communities through opioid prevention programming
This Indigenous evaluation toolkit aims to improve health and wellness by encouraging Indigenous communities to tell their stories and reclaim Indigenous ways-of-knowing.Presentation Tools
This web page provides links to a variety of presentation tools that are available on the world wide web.Contents Tools are listed under the following headings:Regression Discontinuity: Software for bandwidth and codes for the manipulation...
This website contains both the software and codes for supporting the use of Regression Discontinuity Design.Crowdmap
Crowdmap is an online tool designed by the creators of the Ushahidi tool. The tool allows you to create interactive maps or timelines from data collected from cell phones, news reports and the web.Lovely Charts Tool
This chart drawing tool for the Apple ipad can be used to draw program logic models. Boxes and arrows of different shapes can be drawn by hand, enlarged, moved and edited easily. The final model can then be easily emailed.Polldaddy Online Research Tool
Polldaddy allows you to create web-based polls, surveys and quizzes allowing the collection of data via a website or email.Health Policy Project: Strengthening capacity in policy, advocacy, governance, and finance: A facilitator guide for organizational capacity assessments
The resource, developed by the Health Policy Project, is a self-assessment tool designed to align with an organization's mission concerning health policy, though the tool is useful more broadly outside the health sector.Monitoring and evaluation systems assessment tool and guide
The monitoring and evaluation systems assessment tool (M&ESAT) and guide were designed to provide a systematic approach for programs and local implementing partners to assess the functionality, effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses ofNational evaluation in the SDG era: An online self-assessment tool for national evaluation diagnostics and strategizing
This tool, developed by the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP, provides a step-by-step mechanism to assess evaluation capacity, determine needs and establish action points for developing a country's framework for evaluation of nationalEvaluation capacity development: A diagnostic guide and action framework
This guide is intended to help governments and development agencies develop a national or sectoral evaluation system by providing a detailed checklist of issues to consider for building a country's evaluation capacity.National Evaluation Capacities Index (INCE) website
The INCE website provides information about the INCE diagnostic tool and allows users to explore the data from existing INCE assessments, both online through the Data Explorer, and through exporting XLS files.AEA statement on cultural competence in evaluation
"This statement of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) affirms the significance of cultural competence in evaluation. It also informs the public of AEA’s expectations concerning cultural competence in the conduct of evaluation."The six-sphere framework: A practical tool for assessing monitoring and evaluation systems
This paper presents the six-sphere framework, a tool that can be used to extend the scope of evaluation capacity development diagnostics to include organisational and environmental factors that lie outside the conventional diagnostic lens.Evaluation plans and operations checklist
This checklist from the Evaluation Checklists Project provides a guide to those interested in conducting a preliminary, formative metaevaluation.CIPP evaluation model checklist
Stufflebeam provides an explanation of what CIPP is, and a checklist designed to help evaluators evaluate programs with relatively long-term goals.50 top tools for social media monitoring, analytics, and management
This blog post by Pam Dyer lists 50 different tools for gathering, analysing and reporting data about social media.Tools for knowledge and learning: A guide for development and humanitarian organisations
This tool kit presents entry points and references to the wide range of tools and methods that have been used to facilitate improved knowledge and learning in the development and humanitarian sectors.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).