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Randomized control trials: Rationale and requirements
This slide show by Dr Howard White presents the use of randomized control trials (RCTs) in impact evaluation.Economic analysis of investment operations – Analytical tools and practical applications
This guide presents information about different tools for economic evaluation.Phân tích kinh tế các hoạt động đầu tư - Công cụ phân tích và ứng dụng thực tế
Đây là bản hướng dẫn trình bày thông tin về các công cụ khác nhau nhằm phục vụ cho việc Đánh giá Kinh tế.Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) toolkit for grantmakers and grantees
Resources to support and inspire better MEL among donors, grantees, and their partners, developed by a global grant-making team.Rebalancing grantee/donor power for better MEL
Though it’s not often acknowledged, funders are almost entirely reliant on grantee MEL practices to understand the impact of their resources in the world.Designing donor MEL systems and policies
Like other grant-making organizations, the Open Society Foundations achieve impact largely through the work of its grantees. But this doesn’t mean that MEL is limited to grantees alone.Emphasizing evaluative thinking for complex systems change
Each portfolio team within the Economic Justice Program was tasked with creating its own approach to learning and evaluation to address the complex challenges that it was seeking to address.Seeding innovation, evidence, and grantee-led learning in the economic justice field
The provision of infrastructure, community-building, and resources for learning across the field and among grantees was a major feature of the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) support that the Open Society Foundations’ Economic JusThe Economic Justice Program’s monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning sub-strategy 2021–24
This sub-strategy from the Economic Justice Program explicitly outlines the purpose of MEL within the program, along with specific goals and guiding principles.Introduction to MEL for program staff
This tool is a presentation that the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program MEL team delivered to program colleagues to get them more familiar with MEL and suggest practical steps for considering it in their work.Developing a data collection platform: Vendor evaluation form
This resource is the form used by Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program team to evaluate potential vendors to design and implement a new data platform for MEL.Terms of reference for evaluators and steering committees
This resource is a compilation of three separate terms of references to support different components of evaluations of Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program.Theory of change example for grant portfolios
This resource is a theory of change example that was developed for an anti-corruption portfolio (2016–21); it includes standard theory-of-change components, such as outcomes and activities, as well as elements more specific to OSF’s longer-MEL jamboree facilitator agendas
These agendas, for grantee “MEL jamborees”, provide a detailed view of not only how an actionable learning event for MEL could be structured but also offer an insight into the interests, challenges, and opportunities facing grantees when itLearning Exchange Fund overview and application form
The MEL team in the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program created a special fund to support structured learning and collaboration between its existing grantees.Data ethics guidebook & toolkit
This data ethics guidebook and accompanying toolkit from Informing Change and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation deliver practical guidance and customizable tools for navigating ethical issues in research and evaluations.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.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.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 purpoEvaluation 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 vulnerabiGISELA – 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 qualitJoint 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.The World Cafe toolkit
The World Cafe website offers several free tools for supporting the set-up and facilitation of a World Cafe session. The following tools are available for download on the World Cafe website: