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The World Cafe toolkit
The World Cafe website offers several free tools for supporting the set-up and facilitation of a World Cafe session. The following tools are available for download on the World Cafe website:Informed consent in visual research
This toolkit from Real Life Methods provides tips and advice on seeking informed consent to use digital photographs of participants of a project.After the ethical approval form: Ethical considerations of working in research teams
Produced as part of the Realities "toolkit" series, this document highlights some of the issues around ethics within the research team and suggests some helpful approaches to ethical working relationships.Using email interviews
This Realities toolkit on Email Interviews draws on the author's experience of using email interviews in a multi-method study of older music fans.What to do with contradictory data?
This toolkit focuses on the issue of data integration within mixed methods research.Using blog analysis
This toolkit draws on experiences of a study in which blog analysis was used alongside interviews to explore young people’s representations of their gap year experiences.Using phone interviews
This toolkit explores the use of telephone interviews in qualitative research.Evaluation 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.Conducting mixed-method evaluations
This technical note from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) provides an overview of using a mixed-methods approach for evaluation.Using rapid appraisal methods
This guide examines the benefits and limitations of the rapid appraisal approach.Conducting key informant interviews
This USAID document advises how to conduct and apply the rapid appraisal technique known as key informant interviews.Using direct observation techniques
Direct observation techniques allow for a more systematic, structured process, using well-designed observation record forms.Constructing an evaluation report
This guide from USAID has been designed to provide guidance on how to construct evaluation reports.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.Biodiversity assessment of the REDD community forest project in Oddar Meanchey Cambodia
In this report, the details of field surveys are analysed to provide information on the distribution of birds and mammals in the Oddar Meachney province, Cambodia.Aggregating, presenting and valuing climate change impacts
This report aims to provide a picture of the impact of climate change resulting from the emissions of greenhouse gasses. In preparing the report, the authors took the following into consideration:Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Oddar Meanchey Province
This project design document outlines the development of a program to support sustainable forest management and livelihood protection in Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia.Evaluation report checklist
This checklist was developed by drawing upon and reflecting on The Program Evaluation Standards which were created for the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 1994.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.Horizontal evaluation: Stimulating social learning among peers
This guide published by the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC) provides a detailed overview of Horizontal Evaluation and its uses.Innovation histories: A method for learning from experience
This brief from the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC) outlines the purpose and the steps involved in creating an Institutional History.Build reach into your logic model
In this 1998 paper, Steve Montague addresses the limitation of logic models in that they have a tendency to direct their attention to causal chains without making reference to who and where the action was.Framing participatory evaluation
This 1998 paper by J.Engaging scientists through institutional histories
This brief from the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC), describes the reasoning and methods for producing Institutional Histories (IH).Shared measurement systems: A new approach to evaluating capacity development
This paper from Foundation Safety Group (FSG) outlines the process of using comparative performance systems to monitor and evaluate projects, programs and organisations.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.Hierarchical card sorting: A tool for qualitative research
This paper by Rick Davies from the Centre for Development Studies describes the use of hierarchical card sorting as a way to elicit the views of development sector staff to gain an understanding of their perceptions of the world around themFiji education sector independent completion report
This document is a 44-page independent evaluation of AusAID's assistance to the Fiji Education sector over the period of 2003-2009. The success of the program was rated on the following criteria:Designing and conducting health systems research projects Volume 2: Data analyses and report writing
This guide provides 13 modules designed to demonstrate aspects of data analysis and report writing.