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Filter search resultsUnique Methods in Advocacy Evaluation
This document describes four unique advocacy evaluation methods for assessing advocacy and policy change.ResourceAdvocacy Planning and Evaluation Program Tools
The Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) provides a range of free online Continuous Progress Tools to support advocacy evaluation..ResourceThe Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy
This article describes the challenges of evaluating advocacy organizations and outlines possible approaches that donors might use.ResourceGreen Media Toolshed
Green Media Toolshed is a website that aims to provide tools and training to improve the effectiveness of 'green' messages' to the public from environmental movements"Green Media Toolshed's goals are to:ResourceDiscerning policy influence: Framework for a strategic evaluation of IDRC-supported research
This background paper on frameworks for examining policy influence defines policy influence in a broad way, from enhancing policy capacities (i.e., strengthening the capacity of researchers to address policy questions), through broadening pResourceEvaluation of Research in Context: Quick Scan of an Emerging Field
This report from the Rathenau Instituut provides an overview of the process and materials available for ensuring a better understanding of evaluating research in context.ResourceMonitoring and evaluating advocacy: A Scoping Study
This scoping study from ActionAid aims to analyse how a variety of NGO's approach the evaluation of advocacy projects and programs.ResourceMonitoring and evaluating advocacy: lessons from Oxfam's Climate Change campaign
This article from Development in Practice analyses Oxfam GB's attempts to monitor and evaluate a global advocacy campaiResourceA Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation
This guide from the Innovation Network Inc. outlines a step by step process for conducting evaluations on advocacy projects.ResourcePractical 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.ResourcePoint K Learning Center
The Point K Learning Center's website of free tools and resources hResourceEvaluating your nonprofit's lobbyist
This guide provides eight key activities that organisations should use to evaluate the effectiveness of their lobbyist.ResourceEvaluation 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.ResourceEvaluation 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.ResourceFront-end Analysis of the Evaluation process: Why, When, and What
This module from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) outlines the organisational and planning process involved in evaluations of development projects and programs.ResourceParticipatory program evaluation manual – involving program stakeholders in the evaluation process
This guide from the Child Survival Technical Support Project and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was designed to support staff evaluate development programs and projects.ResourceStakeholder participation in monitoring and evaluation
This tool from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides an overview of the process of participatory monitoring.ResourceEvaluation 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 atResourceKStoolkit: Fishbowl technique
This webpage from the KnowledgeSharing Toolkit website offers a guide on how the Fishbowl Technique can be used for stakeholder engagement in a variety of settings.ResourceQuick tips - collecting group data: Delphi technique
This resource from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension provides an overview of the Delhi technique and its uses. Preparation, procedures, tips and letters are also used to explain its purpose and use.ResourceSIRCA: 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 CResourceCommunity 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.ResourceGuidance 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 forResourceIdentify the boundary partners
This website from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) provides a comprehensive guide to identifying boundary partners which are the groups or organisations that interact directly with aResourceParticipatory 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.ResourceSocial network analysis guide
The guide provides an overview of Social Network Analysis, an example of maps that can be developed from this type of analysis and key focus questions for SNA.ResourceThe art of focused conversations for schools
This page outlines a range of questions that can be used to focus conversation using ORID. The page also includes an example of how to use this technique and a template that can be used for its implementation.ResourceWhat 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.ResourceSocial experiments to fight poverty
2009 MacArthur fellow Esther Duflo argues that experiments, using randomized controlled trials, are essential to the eradication of poverty in this Ted Talk.ResourceMichael 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.ResourceMichael 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.ResourceProcess tracing: From philosophical roots to best practices
The aim of this book is to explain the philosophical foundations, specific techniques, common evidentiary sources, and standards and best practices of process tracing in order to reduce the risks of making inferential errors in the analysisResource