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Webconference
Webconferencing is a conference hosted on the internet that can allow people who live in different parts of the world to get together.
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Videoconference
Videoconferences can be used to gather data, communicate about the evaluation, including reporting findings, receive feedback about the evaluation report, and plan for utilization.
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Teleconference
Teleconferences can be used to facilitate the discussion of evaluation findings via telephone.
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Participatory recommendation screening
This option allows users to test recommendations with key stakeholders.
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Electronic democracy
Electronic democracy uses new and emergent forms of media to engage community members in seeking to influence the decision-making process by allowing them to apply pressure to those in power over a diverse range of issues.
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Recommendations tracking
Tracking recommendations involves keeping a transparent record of the responses to and action from recommendations.
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Annual review
Annual reviews of major evaluation findings and conclusions, based on evaluation studies completed during the preceding year, can be a useful way to support use.
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Policy briefing
Policy briefs are designed to outline findings and recommendations in an accessible manner for specific target audiences.
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Social learning
Social learning is an approach to learning that focuses on how people learn through social interactions, such as modelling, making connections, sharing experiences and resources, collaboration and self-organization.
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Conference co-presentations
Conference co-presentations take place when evaluators and evaluation commissioners or users jointly present findings or discussions about processes from an evaluation.
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Colour blindness
People who are affected by colour blindness are unable to distinguish between different hues of certain colours.
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Aide memoire
An aide-memoire generally refers to a document that is produced to summarise key findings and important recommendations of an evaluation.
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External review
This method involves facilitating a review of the evaluation by an external expert or anonymous reviewer.
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Slide presentation
A verbal presentation of results can ensure that intended users have an opportunity to be briefed on the results and to engage in a discussion about them.
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Consensus conference
A consensus conference is a formal public meeting, which gives the general public the chance to contribute to and be involved in the assessment of an issue or proposal.
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Social media communications
Social media refers to online communication platforms that allow participants to create and share content with people in their networks.
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Infographics
An infographic (short for 'information graphic') represents data visually so that the information is able to be quickly and easily understood.
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Conferences
Attendance at professional conferences to understand how other evaluators frame and discuss their findings is a key component of building evaluation capacity.
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ThematicAnalysis.net
This website describes thematic analysis, "a range of qualitative research methods that are used for exploring and interpreting patterned meaning across datasets."
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The ‘5-whys’ method
This document explains the idea behind the 'Five Whys' method.
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Process tracing
This document explores the challenges, uses and application of process tracing as a method for tracing the causal relationship of events and outcomes.
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Strategies to reduce costs
Reducing costs is something to consider if evaluation costs outweigh the predicted benefits or available resources.
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Work with universities to staff the evaluation
This strategy requires management leadership and uses the rule of thumb approach to estimate the percentage of project funds to spend on evaluation which could be done more accurately by developing an initial
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Designated staff time for evaluation
This strategy for securing sufficient resources for conducting evaluation involves allocating a specified amount of staff time (hours or days per week) to work on evaluation.
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Grant funding for evaluation
You may also consider approaching a foundation or other donor agency for the funds to undertake an evaluation.
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Institutionalized budget allocation
This strategy requires management leadership and uses the rule of thumb approach to estimate the percentage of project funds to spend on evaluation.
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Leveraged partnerships to carry out the evaluation
As many projects are undertaken by a consortium of organisations working together, sometimes it is worthwhile to consider approaching your implementing partners to pool resources and carry out the evaluation jointly.
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Interviews
Interviews are conversations between an investigator (interviewer) and a respondent (‘interviewees’, ‘informants’ or ‘sources’) in which questions are asked in order to obtain information.
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Open space
Open Space Technology (OST) is a group facilitation approach for small and large gatherings in which a central purpose, issue, or task is addressed, but which begins with a purposeful lack of any formal initial agenda.
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Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of time bound and quantified goals and targets developed to help track progress in eradicating poverty.
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Card visualization
Card visualization is a participatory method for capturing data that uses paper cards to allow groups to brainstorm and share their ideas.
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Reputational monitoring dashboard
A ‘reputation monitoring dashboard’ allows users to monitor and quickly appraise reputational trends at a glance and from a variety of different sources.
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