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  • Department Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) - Republic of South Africa

    This website provides information about the activities of the South African Department: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME).
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  • Central evaluation units

    Central evaluation units are government agencies typically housed within a central government agency, such as the Planning Ministry, the Finance Ministry or the Office of the President or Prime Minister.
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  • Informal meeting processes

    Informal meetings can simply be a conversation between an evaluator and a key stakeholder that is not conducted in a formal way.
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  • Citizen juries

    Citizen juries are a method to engage citizens from the wider community in decision-making processes.
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  • Consensus decision making

    Consensus decision is a decision-making method that involves reaching agreement between all members of a group with regards to a certain issue.  
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  • Stakeholder mapping and analysis

    Stakeholders are individuals or organizations that will be affected in some significant way by the outcome of the evaluation process or that are affected by the performance of the intervention, or both.
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  • Community fairs

    A community fair is an event organised within the local community with the aim of providing information about a project and raising awareness of relevant issues.
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  • What “extras” do we get with extracurriculars? Technical research considerations

    This research paper uses Instrumental Variable methods to analyse whether "participation in out-of-school extracurricular activities improve academic achievement or behavior for elementary school children?
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  • Compare results to the counterfactual

    Develop an estimate of what would have happened without the intervention and compare that to the findings of what happened with the intervention.
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  • Community scoping

    Community profiles are good for developing a more in-depth understanding of a community of interest. 
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  • Launch workshop

    A launch workshop is a meeting of key stakeholders to both assess and build readiness for evaluation.
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  • Terms of reference

    A Terms of Reference (ToR) document provides an important overview of what is expected in an evaluation.
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  • Request for proposal (RFP)

    A Request for Proposal (RFP) is a formal request for evaluators to prepare a response to a planned evaluation and are generally used to select the final evaluator for the evaluation.
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  • Expression of interest

    An expression of interest (EoI) is a way for an organisation to publish its intention to appoint an evaluation team to conduct an evaluation of a specific project or program.
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  • Scope of work

    A Scope of Work (SOW) is a plan for conducting an evaluation which outlines the work that is to be performed by the evaluation team.
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  • External consultant

    An external consultant is someone external to the organization who is contracted to conduct the evaluation.
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  • Internal staff

    Conducting an evaluation using staff from the implementing agency rather than hiring external consultants.
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  • Community

    The community, particularly intended beneficiaries of an intervention, can undertake an evaluation or contribute to a combined team.
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  • Evaluation library

    In many organisations, a print or digital collection of books, manuals and other documents has been gathered to form an evaluation library that can be jointly accessed. Decisions to be taken include:
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  • Evaluation plan

    An evaluation plan sets out the proposed details of an evaluation - what will be evaluated, how and when.
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  • Evaluation framework

    An evaluation framework (sometimes called a Monitoring and Evaluation framework, or more recently a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework) provides an overall framework for evaluations across different programs or different evaluati
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  • Evaluation work plan

    An evaluation work plan involves the development of clear timeframes, deliverables and milestones.
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  • Memorandum of understanding

    A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlines an agreement between two collaborating bodies in order to identify the working relationships and guidelines that exist between them.
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  • Fellowship

    A fellowship is an extended position that provides paid employment and support for people who have completed formal coursework in evaluation.
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  • Supervised practice in teams

    Supervision of practice is an approach often used in social work where it is expected that all practitioners will engage in regular discussions of and reflections on their practice; it is not an approach only intended to support novices.
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  • Learning circle

    A Learning Circle allows a group of individuals to meet and explore an issue and learn from each other in the process.
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  • Reflective practice

    Reflective practice involves an individual reflecting on their work allowing them to learn from their own experiences and insights and engage in a practice of continual learning.
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  • Results chain

    "Results chain or pipeline logic models represent a program theory as a linear process with inputs and activities at the front and long-term outcomes at the end.
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  • Tiny tool results chain

    Tiny tool results chain maps both positive and negative possible impacts from an intervention.
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  • Triple column

    A triple column/row theory of change diagram shows the causal pathway in terms of intermediate outcomes, activities that directly produce these, and the influence of other factors and programs.
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  • Five Whys

    The Five Whys is an easy question asking option that examines the cause-and-effect relationships that underly problems.
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  • Backcasting

    Backcasting is a method that involves envisaging alternative futures.
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