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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.Framework for assessing compliance outcomes
This example of an outcome assessment framework was developed by the Western Australian Department of Fisheries in collaboration with four other Australian Fisheries Management Agencies.UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation
These guidelines from the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) were designed to ensure ethical practice takes place in evaluations involving all UN agencies.AES guidelines for the ethical conduct of evaluations
These guidelines from the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) were designed to ensure ethical behaviour and decision-making are incorporated into evaluation practice.Australasian Evaluation Society Code of Ethics
This code of ethics from the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) is aimed at promoting ethical evaluation practice, supporting its members and maintaining AES standards.GEF Evaluation Office ethical guidelines
These guidelines from the Global Environment Facility were developed to ensure ethical considerations were adopted in the case of conflict of interest situations and that the rights of stakProfessionnal Ethics and Standards for the Evaluation Community in the Government of Canada
This paper from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat outlines the professional standards expected of the evaluation community in Canada's Public Service with a partiDFID Ethics Principles for Research and Evaluation
This paper from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) outlines the principals on ethical practice in research and evaluation that must be adhered to on all projects funded byNSW Government evaluation toolkit
This web-based toolkit has been developed to help program managers in New South Wales (Australia) government agencies manage evaluations (including those undertaken by internal or external evaluators, or by a combination of both). Unintended consequences: Road safety evaluation
This webpage provides two brief examples which describe the unintended consequences of an intervention.Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit
This toolkit aims to help communication for development (C4D) organisations to demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of their initiatives, listen to their listeners, continuously learn, and feed this learning back into the organisation and iMerit determination rubrics
The following example can be found in Appendix H of the Final Evaluation Report of the Recognised Seasonal Employer Policy, which details merit determination rubrics involving a rating, worker dimensions and employer dimensions.An example of the use of Rubrics in Humanitarian Evaluation
"The IASC Gender Marker is a tool that codes, on a 0-2 scale, whether or not a humanitarian project is designed well enough to ensure that women/girls and men/boys will benefit equally from it or that it will advance gender equality&nbTerms of reference: Evaluation advisory group – clinical placement planning
This Terms of Reference from the Victorian Department of Health in Australia provides an example of the role, function and protocols of an Evaluation Advisory Group.Evaluation of the Aboriginal Research pilot program (Canada)
"The program had two main objectives: to facilitate research on a range of policy-related issues that are of concern to Canada's Aboriginal peoples, including urban issues, economic development, the environment, education, research ethics,Lifting the lens: developing a logic for a complicated policy
The impetus for this article comes from the authors’ experience of developing an intervention logic during a two-year evaluation of a complicated government policy.Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming In UNDP
This report, from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), outlines the findings of an evaluation of gender mainstreaming in the UNDP in 2005.Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This video from the Center on the Developing Child demonstrates how a theory of change was developed for improving child outcomes through the development of adult capabilities.Equity in extractives: Stewarding Africa’s natural resources for all
This report from the Africa Progress Panel (APP) provides an analysis of Africa's natural resources and provides a series of recommendations and actions to ensure improvement in their use and development.Two sides of the evaluation coin
Unusually perhaps, this article is written jointly by the commissioner and the contractor of a recent evaluation. The process was rich, complex, at times difficult and a learning experience for all of us involved.Household Water Connections in Tangier, Morocco
In this study, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) used an encouragement randomized control trial (RCT) in order to gauge the effectiveness of a scheme to provideSmall Individual Loans and Mental Health in South Africa
In this evaluation, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) worked with an anonymous microfinance lender to identify 787 rejected loan applicants who had been deemed “pMixing methods for rich and meaningful insight
The different perceptions of participants regarding the effectiveness of a project can, at times, be hard to identify.Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework
This paper reports on the approach used in a multicountry study of the poverty impact of research programs under the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).Big data for development: challenges & opportunities - the white paper
This paper, written by Emmanuel Letouzé for United Nations Global Pulse, seeks to answer many of teh questions relevant to the use of big data in international development evaluations.&nCollective Action in CGIAR Capacity Development
This is the project report on a study conducted on the collective action in capacity development by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRITransforming 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.From seed to scale-up: Lessons learned from Australia’s rural development assistance
This report from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT, formerly AusAID), reviews Australia's rural development assistance prograEarth Eval: Using video to communicate evaluation results
This blog offers an example of a video that was created to communicate evaluation findings.Assessing the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian households
In this paper, Canning, Mahal, Odumosu and Okonkwo (2006) use propensity score matching to assess the affect of HIV/AIDS on an individual's ability to access health care in Nigeria.Does microfinance reduce poverty in India?
In this study, propensity score matching is used to assess the impact of micro-finance loans on reducing poverty when they are used for productive means.Estimating the benefit incidence of an antipoverty program by propensity score matching
This study uses propensity score matching to estimate the distribution of net income gains from an Argentinean workfare program.