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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.Setting social and environmental standards v6.0
This code of good practice from the ISEAL Alliance is aimed at setting and codifying standards for the design and implementation of environmental and social systems.Fiji 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:The Center for Evaluation Innovation
The Center for Evaluation Innovation focuses on expanding evaluation practice in new directions and into new arenas.Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI)
Caring for our Country - MERI Strategy - is a website that breaks down the evaluation processes into four interrelated components: monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement.GeneraTOR - Terms of reference template
The GeneraTOR will guide you through writing the different sections of a ToR / RFP. It will generate a word document with your saved information which can then be further refined and/or reviewed by others.A critique of using the Delphi technique for assessing evaluation capability-building needs
This article examines the use of the Delphi technique as part of a needs assessment to inform an evaluation capability-building plan within a government department.Evaluating humanitarian action using the OECD-DAC criteria
This guide provides practical support on how to use the OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) criteria in evaluation of humanitarian action (EHA).Evaluation study terms of reference template
This template from the UK Department for International Development provides an overview of the minimum content required within Terms of Reference for development of an Evaluation Study.Practical guide for engaging stakeholders in developing evaluation questions
This guide from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was designed to support evaluators engage their stakeholders in the evaluation process.Evaluation question examples: Evaluation at country level, regional level, sector or thematic global evaluation
This document contains example questions, many of which are drawn from country, regional, sector or thematic global evaluations undertaken by the Evaluation Unit.Evaluation questions: IPDET Handbook
This module from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) outlines the process for creating and using different types of evaluation questions for a variety of purposes.Stakeholder participation in monitoring and evaluation
This tool from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides an overview of the process of participatory monitoring.Evaluation methods for the European Union's external assistance
This volume presents most of what needs to be known to manage or carry out an evaluation, using standardised terminology in three languages (English, Spanish and French) that contribute toward the OECD Development Aid Committee's efforts atSIRCA: Building evaluation capacity — a review of awarding, mentoring and conferences
This case study from the Singapore Internet Research Centre (SIRCA) describes how they used a Utilization Focused Evaluation for a project in conjunction with Developing Evaluation CapaciCommunity scorecard approach for performance assessment - ProNet North's experience
This WaterAid Ghana Briefing Paper, outlines ProNet North’s experience of using the Community Scorecard Approach to assess performance.Guidance on M&E for civil society programs
This guide from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT, formerly AusAID) is aimed at program managers who have responsibility for managing prograParticipatory Impact Pathways Analysis: A practical method for project planning and evaluation
This institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC) brief number 17 provides an overview of using Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) on projects involving the water and food sectors.What to include in an evaluation brief
This paper from Charities Evaluation Services provides an overview of the process and content needed to create an evaluation brief.Michael Quinn Patton, on developmental evaluation compared with R&D
In this short video, Michael Quinn Patton discusses the relationship between developmental evaluation and the research and development process.Michael Quinn Patton on developmental evaluation as alternative to formative assessment
In this short video Michael Quinn Patton outlines the differences between developmental, formative and summative evaluation.Basic priority rating model 2.0
This article from Health Promotion Practice provides an overview and guide to objective priority setting using predetermined criteria, standardized comparisons, and a rubric that minimizes bias – the BaZambian HIV/AIDS learning initiative
This mid term evaluation report from Pact's Zambian HIV/AIDS Learning Initiative provides a detailed examination of the program which aims to strengthen capacity of organisations working with HIV/AIDSToolkit on evaluation
This toolkit from UNICEF Egypt Country Office was developed to support staff in the evaluation process in order to improve the quality of evaluation reports and ensure the application of policy andEvaluation step-by-step guide
This paper, developed by the Victorian Government's former Department of Planning and Community Development, provides a step-by-step guide to the process of conducting an evaluation in order to ensure that a project or program has met its oTerms of reference. End of programme independent evaluation
The document provides an example of a terms of reference for developing an independent evaluation, with instructions on methodology and reporting standards.The logical framework approach
This publication is part of a series of guidelines developed by AusAid in relation to activities design.