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Filter search resultsQuIP: 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.ResourceQualitative 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.ResourceQuIP 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 dataResourceMultiple lines and levels of evidence
Multiple lines and levels of evidence (MLLE) is a systematic approach to causal inference that involves bringing together different types of evidence (lines of evidence) and considering the strength of the evidence in terms of different indMethodJournals and logs
Journals and logs are forms of record-keeping tools that can be used to capture information about activities, results, conditions, or personal perspectives on how change occurred over a period of time.Methodモスト・シグニフィカント・チェンジ (MSC)手法
モスト・シグニフィカント・チェンジ(MSC)手法は、参加型モニタリング・評価手法の一つである。 記録すべき変化の決定やデータ分析の過程に、多くの利害関係者(ステーク ホルダー)が関与することから、参加型と言える。また、プログラム・サイクルの全工程 で実施され、プログラムを実施管理するうえで有効な情報を提供することから、モニタリ ング手法と言える。さらに、プログラム全体の業績を評価するうえで有用であり、インパ クトや効果に関する情報を提供してくれる。ResourceTécnica del “Cambio Más Significante” (MSC, por sus siglas en inglés) - Guía para su uso
La técnica del cambio más significante (MSC, por sus siglas en inglés) es una forma de monitoreo y evaluación participativa.ResourceThe 'Most Significant Change' technique - A guide to its use
Essential reading for anyone seeking to use the 'Most Significant Change' (MSC) technique.ResourceMost significant change: Learning to learn
This webpage from the South Australian Government's Learning to Learn (L2L) program offers an overview of the study and practice of the Most Significant Change (MSC) approach.ResourceThe most significant change technique
This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) outlines the process for using Most Significant Change in evaluation. It provides a step by step process that can be followed to ensure its effective implementation.ResourceA guide to assessing needs
This book, written by Ryan Watkins, Maurya West Meiers and Yusra Laila Visser for The World Bank, provides detailed guidance on needs assessment during the early stages of project development.ResourceA critical review of applications in QCA and fuzzy-set analysis and a ‘toolbox’ of proven solutions to frequently encountered problems
This paper from Patrick A. Mello focuses on reviewing current applications for use in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in order to take stock of what is available and highlight best practice in this area.ResourceSet-theoretic methods for the social sciences: A guide to qualitative comparative analysis
This book, by Schneider and Wagemann, provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of set theory to model causality and applications of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), the most developed form of set-theoretic method, foResourceUsing qualitative comparative analysis to explore causal links for scaling up investments in renewable energy
This paper illustrates how qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) was used to identify causal pathways for scaling renewable energy to meet sustainable development and climate goals.ResourceAn introduction to applied data analysis with qualitative comparative analysis
This article by Nicolas Legewie provides an introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It discusses the method's main principles and advantages, including its concepts.ResourceCompasss: Comparative methods for systematic cross-case analysis
COMPASSS (Comparative methods for systematic cross-case analysis) is a website that has been designed to develop the use of systematic comparative case analysis as a research strategy by bringing together scholars and practitioners who sharResourceWhat is qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)?
This slide show from Charles C Ragin, provides a detailed explanation, including examples, that clearly demonstrates the question, 'What is QCA?'.ResourceStorytelling
This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on the use of storytelling as a way of effectively communicating both emotional and factual content to contextualise the ideas or experiences being shared.ResourceOutcome mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs
This book by Sarah Earl, Fred Carden and Terry Smutylo takes an original approach to assessing development impacts by focusing on the way in which people relate to each other and to their environment rather than simply evaluating the producResourceOutcome mapping: A method for tracking behavioural changes in development programs
This guide published by the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative provides a detailed overview of using outcome mapping as an evaluation tool.ResourceOutcome Mapping Learning Community
This website from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community is a resource and sharing hub for resources and ideas related to outcome mapping.Resource10 years of outcome mapping
This webinar from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community (OMLC) presents the key findings from research conducted into the extent of Outcome Mapping use and the support required for its implementation.ResourceUnderstanding 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.ResourceDoing 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.ResourceOrganizational development impact evaluation: Ethiopia country program
This paper from Pact Ethiopia is the final report from three external consultants who were commissioned to evaluate ten years of capacity building interventions by the organisation.ResourceGuideline for Preparing ToR for Evaluating Project/Program/Organization Performances/Results
This guide from CARE Ethiopia is designed to assist staff develop Terms of Reference for evaluations. Contents BackgroundResourceFrom policies to results: Developing capacities for country monitoring and evaluation systems
This book from UNICEF provides a range of articles that demonstrate building capacity and best practices in the development of country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.ResourceEvaluation 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.ResourceUsing sensemaker to understand girls' education in Ethiopia
This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education among pastoralist communities in the Afar region of Ethiopia.ResourceAssessing rural transformations: Piloting a qualitative impact protocol in Malawi and Ethiopia
This working paper reports on findings from four pilot studies of a protocol for qualitative impact evaluation of NGO-sponsored rural development projects in Malawi and Ethiopia.ResourceUsing SenseMaker in child-centred research
This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education in Ethiopia.ResourceCan we obtain the required rigour without randomisation? Oxfam GB’s non-experimental Global Performance Framework
This paper, written by Karl Hughes and Claire Hutchings for the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), looks at Oxfam GB's practice of annual random selection of projects for evaluationResource