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Press release example: Balancing accountability and improvement
This example of a press release discusses the release of a voluntary statewide survey about patients’ experiences with inpatient care at Massachusetts hospitals.Multimedia project evaluation rubric
This rubric from Teacherworld.com is designed for the evaluation of multimedia projects and it contains eleven criteria, with four grading options.Toonlet
This web-based application makes it possible to draw cartoons, by creating characters and then placing them into the panels of a cartoon with appropriate text.A balanced approach to monitoring and evaluating capacity and performance
This study, authored by Paul Engel, Niels Keijzer and Tony Land for the European Centre for Development Policy Management focuses on how capacity develops endogenously within an organisation or system.NGO partner survey 2010
This paper from Keystone Accountability describes the findings of a study which surveyed a range of southern NGO's who partner with 25 specific northern NGO's in order assess their performance on a range of measures.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.Local administration and reform project mid-term evaluation
This Mid-Term Evaluation from USAID provides an assessment of the ongoing Local Administration and Reform project (LAAR) which aims to strengthen governance and social reform in Cambodia.HIV/AIDS targeted interventions: Participatory monitoring and evaluation framework
This set of guidelines from UNICEF was developed to support staff working on HIV and AIDS targeted Internvention (HATI) projects with monitoring and evaluation.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 purpoA toolkit for designing climate change adaptation initiatives
This toolkit from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) aims to support those that are involved in Climate Change Adaption (CCA) initiatives by providing step-by-step guidaEvaluation of adaptation measures for livestock sector in mongolia
This working paper from Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change Initiative (AIACC) evaluates climate change adaptation measures being used in the livestock sector of Mongolia with the aim of reducing its vulnerability to clGISELA – GIS-based evaluation of land-use and agriculture market analysis under global warming
This paper discusses the development and use of a GIS based evaluation model that focuses on land use and food production.Operationalising a resilience approach to adapting an urban delta to uncertain climate changes
This paper presents a case-study on a system-oriented strategy: strengthening the resilience of the impacted system to climatic changes.An 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.Economic evaluation of climate change adaptation projects
This guide form the World Bank highlights a number of key challenges and solutions to carrying out analysis of the economic viability of climate change adaption projects.Climate Vulnerability Assessments
This report showcases a pilot vulnerability, risk, and adaptation assessment undertaken for Albania‘s energy sector to raise awareness and initiate dialogue on energy sector adaptation.PACT South African HIV/AIDS grant management program
This independent external evaluation was commissioned by Pact South Africa to determine the extent to which Pact’s grant making and capacity building services have enhanced the capability of grantees to implement more efficient, high qualitSurvey: Quality Control Checklist
This webpage from EuropeAid provides quality control checklists to support the evaluation, preparation, design and implementation of surveys.Steps - Steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change
This tool from Margaret Sanger Center International provides a step-by-step process for planning, monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects.Template for evaluation plan
ContentsJoint after-action review of our humanitarian response to the tsunami crisis
This paper outlines the findings from the Joint After Action Review conducted to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.UK Data Service Variable and Question Bank (formally the Survey Question Bank)
The UK Data Service Variable and Question Bank is an online repository of questionnaires and variables, from a large number of UK and cross-national social surveys dating to the mid-1990s.Door Knocking as a Method of Recruiting a Sample
Part of the Real Life Options "toolkit" series, this document explores the practice of recruiting participants for an interview study by knocking on doors in the chosen fieldsite.Community health worker evaluation tool kit
The Tool Kit was developed to be a practical and useful guide to program evaluation for CHWs and CHW programs.Checklist for Assessing USAID Evaluation Reports
This checklist from USAID is designed to support staff to produce high quality, evidence based evaluation reports.Checklist for Reviewing Scopes of Work for Performance Evaluations
This evaluation checklist was developed by USAID to support, review and strengthen scope of work (SOW) during the evaluation planning stage.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.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 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.