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Evaluation status update template
This resource is a status template designed to keep stakeholders informed about the progress of an evaluation project.Evaluations that make a difference
This collection gathers eight stories from around the world about evaluations that have made a difference to the lives of people.Navigating competing demands in monitoring and evaluation: Five key paradoxes
In this article, Marijn Faling, Sietze Vellema, and Greetje Schouten report on five paradoxes in monitoring and evaluation, each encompassing two competing logics. This resource was contributed by Marijn Faling.Ethics framework and guidelines: A guide for research funding organizations implementing participatory activities
This framework supports the ethical preparation, implementation, and evaluation of participatory processes in research funding and (applied) research & innovation (R&I).Evaluation reporting: A guide to help ensure use of evaluation findings
This guide addresses the issue of ensuring that evaluation findings are used by stakeholders.Designing quality impact evaluations under budget, time and data constraints
This presentation explores how methodologically defensible estimates of project effects and impacts can be identified when operating under real-world budget, time and data constraints.Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) webinars
These webinars hosted by the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) and its partners cover a range of topics including strengthening national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, gender equality, and many other areas.BExchange: Using evaluations for decision-making - The OECD recommendations (Webinar)
This webinar, held on September 21, 2023, is the first instalment of the Global Evaluation Initiative's BExchange webinar series.Making rigorous causal claims in a real-life context: Has research contributed to sustainable forest management?
This article discusses an impact evaluation that examined the contribution of two forestry research centres - the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pourContribution analysis and estimating the size of effects: Can we reconcile the possible with the impossible?
This paper explores how contribution analysis can be used to give a quantitative sense of a contribution's importance.Contribution analysis for adaptive management
This briefing note shares guidance on using contribution analysis for adaptative management by examining how the approach enables programmes to work with theories of change in a practical, reflexive way and how its findings can inform progrFeedback workshop checklist
This checklist from the Evaluation Checklists Project supports the planning, conducting, and following up of feedback workshops when used as evaluation tools.From narrative text to causal maps: QuIP analysis and visualisation
This paper focuses on analysing raw data to produce useful visual summaries, describing in detail the processes involved in a QuIP analysis.QuIP used as part of an evaluation of the impact of the UK Government Tampon Tax Fund (TTF)
The evaluation of the UK Government's Tampon Tax Fund (TTF), established in 2015, incorporated Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP) techniques to capture grantees' perspectives.Comparing QuIP with thirty other approaches to impact evaluation
This resource outlines how the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) compares to 30 other impact evaluation approaches.QuIP: Understanding clients through in-depth interviews
This practice note gives a step-by-step guide to developing and conducting in-depth interviews using the QuIP approach, and analysing the information and making conclusions based on what you have learned.Qualitative impact assessment protocol (QuIP)
This easy-to-read briefing introduces the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) as a valuable, simple and cost-effective tool for assessing the impact of social investments and development interventions.QuIP and the Yin/Yang of Quant and Qual: How to navigate QuIP visualisations
This discussion paper reviews how quantitative and qualitative processes are utilised in analysis and presentation of dataUnderstanding process tracing
This 2011 paper, from David Collier, outlines a new framework for process tracing to achieve greater systemisation of qualitative methods. This version includes some reflections in 2019 on subsequent developments.Doing qualitative field research on gender norms with adolescent girls and their families
This research and practice note offers practical advice, examples and tools to ensure gender sensitivity in evaluation and research with adolescent girls, with a focus on qualitative research methods.Evaluation of a community managed forest project in Humbo, Ethiopia
This paper gives a practical description of an evaluation of the World Vision Humbo Community Managed Natural Regeneration project in Ethiopia.Use of administrative data for the COVID-19 response
This blog introduces a video of a panel session describing how administrative data – routinely collected data – might be used to help with the response to the COVID 19 pandemic.Informal traders lock horns with the formal milk industry: The role of research in pro-poor dairy policy shift in kenya
This paper, written by C. Leksmono, J. Young, N. Hooton, H. Muriuki and D.Footprint evaluation webinar 1: Identifying points of nexus between human and natural systems
In part one of this three-part webinar series, Andy Rowe and Patricia Rogers discuss what was learnt during theA toolkit for monitoring and evaluation of gender-based violence
This is a guide to support organizations implementing GBV response and prevention activities in low-resource settings to improve and integrate monitoring and evaluation into their work in a way that ensures the dignity and respect for theirUsing sense maker to understand girls' lives: lessons learnt from girl hub
This 4-page brief discusses how Girl Hub used a story collection research methodology called SenseMaker to help generate girl-centred evidence to inform girls' empowerment interventions.Environmental sustainability: 2022 NEC Conference session recording
In this recording of the 2022 NEC Conference's session on environmental sustainability, the Footprint Evaluation Initiative’s Patricia Rogers and Andy Rowe joined Joana Varela (Ministry of Finance and Blue Economy Plan, São Tomé and PrincipMore than a pretty picture: Using poverty maps to design better policies and interventions
This World Bank volume offers detailed guidance on the use of Small Area Estimation poverty maps in research and policy making. Information, guidance and tools are organised around the following broad themes:Attributing development impact: The qualitative impact protocol (QuIP) case book
This freely available, online book brings together case studies using an impact evaluation approach, the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP), without a control group that uses narrative causal statements elicited directly from intended projeJoint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE) program evaluation standards in practice
This resource provides a practical guide for evaluators to apply the Program Evaluation Standards developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE)How to manage an evaluation and disseminate its results
This guide from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) outlines the roles and responsibilities of evaluation managers during and after the evaluation has taken place.Evaluation ethics, politics, standards, and guiding principles
This is a module taken from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) program.