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Create an accessible Office document
This free, online training course by Microsoft Office teaches participants about accessibility and how to increase the accessibility of your documents for various users with disabilities.Household vulnerability and resilience to economic shocks
This project into Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks, a collaboration between RMIT University, Oxfam Australia, Deakin University and the University of the South Pacific, gives a good example of the way thaA cultural protocol for evaluation
This resource explores important dimensions of cultural competency in evaluation. It focuses on cross-cultural understanding and culturally-appropriate attitudes and approaches.Acinonyx cervidae hircus: Child-led evaluation of the Building Skills for Life programme in Cambodia
This report presents a child-led evaluation of a multi-sectoral programme in Cambodia seeking to empower adolescent girls and address the challenges they face accessing quality education.Excel for evaluation
This website, created by Ann Emery, provides a series of short videos on using Microsoft Excel to analyze data.Transforming a lizard into a cow: Child-led evaluation of the building skills for life programme in Zimbabwe
This report is the second in this series and presents a child-led evaluation of a multi-sectoral programme in Cambodia seeking to empower adolescent girls and address the challenges they face accessing quality education.Okiko in pursuit of a snail: Child-led evaluation of the building skills for life programme in Kenya
This report is the third in this series and presents a child-led evaluation of a multi-sectoral programme in Cambodia seeking to empower adolescent girls and address the challenges they face accessing quality education.Open Data Kit (ODK)
A free and open-source set of software tools for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.ColorBrewer 2.0
This online tool allows users to create colour schemes for maps and other graphics in order to show data that is readily readable.Reporting on outcomes: Setting performance expectations and telling performance stories
This paper by John Mayne provides a practical guide to telling performance stories and setting expectations about what level of performance was expected.Systemic thinking for monitoring: Attending to interrelationships, perspectives, and boundaries
This discussion note from USAID presents "attending to interrelationships, multiple perspectives, and boundaries" as a key principle underlying complexity-aware monitoring.Synchronizing monitoring with the pace of change in complexity
This discussion note from USAID argues for synchronizing monitoring with the pace of change as a key principle underlying complexity-aware monitoring.Managing for impact in rural development, a guide for project M&E, section 2: Using M&E to manage for impact
This resource published by IFAD discusses how monitoring and evaluation can be used to manage projects to maximise their impact, in this case on poverty reduction.Australian Volunteers program monitoring, evaluation and learning framework
This example of a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework sets out the approach to assessing the performance of the Australian Volunteers Program. This resource and the following information was contributed by Jo Hall.Making adaptive rigour work: Principles and practices for strengthening monitoring, evaluation and learning for adaptive management
This briefing from the Global Learning for Adaptive Management (GLAM) initiative sets out key elements of an ‘adaptive rigour’ approach to adaptive management.Complexity-aware monitoring, evaluation & learning tools for social and behavior change interventions
This toolkit contains three tools to help design and evaluate complexity-aware social and behavior Change interventions. This resource and the following information was contributed by Lenette Golding.Demonstrating outcomes and impact across different scales
This research report from the Research for Development Impact Network demonstrates how evidence of outcomes and impact can be better captured, integrated and reported on across different scales of work for Australian NGOs working in internaPress 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.Multi-criteria analysis: a manual
Aimed at providing guidance for Government Officials and other evaluation practitioners this manual provides an overview of techniques which do not necessarily rely on monetary valuations, namely the Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA).Writing a good executive summary – UNICEF guide
This UNICEF guide provides a clear outline for writing an executive summary.When the data struts its stuff
This article explores the use and potential of visual technology when representing data.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 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-stepGender, climate change and community based adaptation
This guidebook from the UNDP is aimed at providing support for the design and implementation of gender sensitive community based adaptation programs.Community-based adaptation toolkit
This toolkit from CARE was developed to support project teams complete the project cycle in community-based adaptation projects.Defining response capacity to enhance climate change policy
This paper, published in Environmental Science & Policy, highlights the lack of consistency bImpact of climate change and development scenarios on flow patterns in the Okavango River
This paper analyses the water flow patterns of the Okavango River in order to develop a water resource management tool that can be used to assess the impact of climate change on the river.How to write in plain English
This guide from the UK based Plain English Campaign, provides an introduction and tips for writing in plain English.Health impacts of climate change: Adaptation strategies for Western Australia
This report from the Western Australian Department of Health aims to provide an overview of the impact of climate change on the health of people living in Western Australia in the future.Reducing the risk of disasters and climate variability in the Pacific Islands – Timor-Leste
This paper from the World Bank aims to assess the extent to which disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation have taken place in Timor-Leste.Impact evaluation and interventions to address climate change: A scoping study
This paper from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) analyses several climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives and concludes that if funds continue to be spent onA climate change index: Where climate change may be most prominent in the 21st century
This paper aims to present a single number which summarises different climatic conditions and is developed through an aggregated Climate Change Index (CCI).