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Data ethics guidebook & toolkit
This data ethics guidebook and accompanying toolkit from Informing Change and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation deliver practical guidance and customizable tools for navigating ethical issues in research and evaluations.Evaluative thinking
This set of webpages and video from the Department of Education in New South Wales, Australia, provides background information on evaluative thinking and its use.The core of evaluation: Evaluative thinking
This AEA365 blog by Tom Grayson provides a list of quotes from notable evaluation colleagues about the importance of evaluative thinking.SAMEA knowledge compendium 2019
This resource, produced by the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) brings together a range of content about monitoring and evaluation practice.Working with lived and living experience researchers: A practical framework
This blog provides guidance and examples on co-evaluating with lived and living experience (LLE) researchers.Evaluation in the Government of Canada
The Results Division of the Secretariat of the Government of Canada provides advice and guidance on evaluation practices across the federal government.Best of AEA365: Approaching document review in a systematic way
In this blog post, Linda Cabral discusses document reviews and highlights the importance of conducting them systematically.Revised site-visit standards: A quality-assurance framework
Michael Quinn Patton provides a revised framework for site-visit standards to distinguish between those that provide minimal quality control and those that might ensure excellence.Process and implementation evaluations: A primer
In this working paper for the Center for International Development at Harvard University, Patricia Rogers and Michael Woolcock argue that implementation and process evaluations serve the vital purpose of jointly promoting accountability andAdvocacy and policy change: Theory and practice
This book provides an evidence-based guide, toolkit and collection of evaluation cases for conducting effective advocacy and policy change evaluations.Amplifying nonprofit voices: Bridging the advocacy evaluation gap
This evaluation research report aims to better understand nonprofit advocates' ability to evaluate their advocacy capacity, strategies, and tactics; identify their evaluation needs; and develop recommendations on advocate-friendly evaluatioGuidance on using the revised logical framework
This guide from the UK Department of International Development (DFID) aims to help project managers/evaluators make the best use of logical framework (logframe) in designing and managing projects.SWOT analysis
Section 9 of this toolkit from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) provides guidance on the use of SWOT analysis to find the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a project or plan.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.Evaluation plan for the aksi stop AIDS (ASA)
This evaluation plan from the Aksi Stop Aids (ASA) projectwas developed as a tool for ensuring agreement on the evaluations’ overall purpoPolicy impacts on inequality: Simple inequality measures
This module from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) demonstrates a range of ways to measure inequality by using the statistical concepts of location, shape and varAn assessment of sustainable maize production under different management and climate scenarios
The objective of this assessment was to investigate sustainability at the smallholder agro-ecosystem level.Key considerations for managing evaluations
This guide from Pact South Africa is aimed at providing an overview of the key considerations that need to be assessed before and during the evaluation process.How to perform evaluations – Model ToR
This guide produced by the Global Affairs Canada (formerly Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA) was developed to support staff to write clear and simpleMaking choices in health: WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis
This detailed guide provides investigators with a rigorous technical discussion of the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) procedure, written from a public health perspective, as a method for assessing the efficiency of an intervention.Cost-effectiveness analysis, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) online guide offers a detailed and interactive introduction to the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) process. The guide covers the following:Indicators for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals
This publication contains complete and authoritative information on the concepts, definitions, implementation and sources of data for the 48 official Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicators.Developing a logic model or theory of change, community toolbox, University of Kansas
This chapter from the University of Kansas Work Group for Community Health and Development 'Community Toolbox' contains a detailed overview of logic models and theory of change development relevant to the related construction of the realistEvaluation statements of work: Good practice examples
This document provides readers with “good practice” examples of the various elements of an evaluation Scope Of Work (SOW) according to USAID.Baselines and targets
This guide defines baselines and targets and why they are both important.Data quality standards
This paper from USAID provides guidance for ensuring good data quality as a central part of establishing effective management systems.Conducting data quality assessments
This guide explains the purpose, standards and what is required for a data quality assessment.How to talk about climate change
This collection of resources - toolkit, short guide and cheat sheet - sets out the challenges of talking about climate change and presents effective strategies to address them.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.UNEG quality checklist for evaluation terms of reference and inception reports
This guide from the UNEG is a checklist designed to support UNEG members in the design and implementation of evaluations.