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Evaluation Cost
Evaluation Cost es una aplicación de cálculo novedosa diseñada para estimar el coste de un proceso de evaluación de principio a fin de forma rápida y sistemática considerando diferentes grados de complejidad y detalle.Indigenous evaluation toolkit: An actionable guide for organisations serving American Indian / Alaska Native communities through opioid prevention programming
This Indigenous evaluation toolkit aims to improve health and wellness by encouraging Indigenous communities to tell their stories and reclaim Indigenous ways-of-knowing.High school employment: Meaningful connections for at-risk youth
This research paper from the Urban Institute uses instrumental variable methods in order to estimate the effect that employment in high school will have on the long term education outcomes of students.Impact evaluation: How to institutionalize evaluation
This paper from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) examines how institutionalised impact evaluation for social programs has led to better-informed policy.Health Policy Project: Strengthening capacity in policy, advocacy, governance, and finance: A facilitator guide for organizational capacity assessments
The resource, developed by the Health Policy Project, is a self-assessment tool designed to align with an organization's mission concerning health policy, though the tool is useful more broadly outside the health sector.Health Policy Project: Capacity development resource guides and competencies
The Health Policy Project's series of Capacity Development Resource Guides are focused on enhancing the abilities required to impact health policy through design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation, though many of the areas coverDesigning diagnostics in complexity: Measuring technical and contextual aspects in monitoring and evaluation systems
The article highlights the significance of reflecting on methods used in designing diagnostic tools for M&E systems and contributes to the broader debate on understanding and assessing M&E systems in their political and organizationDiagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa
This article aims to share lessons learned from adapting and implementing a range of global tools in an African context, and puts forward certain key criteria for a ‘Made in Africa’ tool to better understand M&E systems in the region.Making sense of evaluation: A handbook for everyone
This evaluation handbook, created by the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Unity (Superu), has been designed for those working in New Zealand's social sector who need to know more about how to measure and understand the effectiveneEstudio diagnóstico sobre las fortalezas y desafíos de los sistemas regionales de construcción de la información, seguimiento y evaluación
Este informe presenta los resultados de un estudio de diagnóstico de los sistemas de seguimiento y evaluación de las provincias regionales de Argentina.A study on the status of national evaluation policies and systems in the Asia Pacific region
This study documents the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in developing National Evaluation Policies and Systems (NEPS). Survey questions that were used as part of the assessment are included in the appendix.Conducting diagnoses of M&E systems and capacities
This note provides a guide to some of the topics and issues that need to be considered when undertaking a diagnosis of a country’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities.Diagnóstico de monitoreo de políticas y programas sociales 2022
En este informe bienal se presentan las principales conclusiones de la evaluación realizada por el CONEVAL del sistema de política y monitoreo social de México.Diagnóstico de monitoreo de políticas y programas sociales 2020
En este informe bienal se presentan las principales conclusiones de la evaluación realizada por el CONEVAL del sistema de política y monitoreo social de México.Gender responsiveness diagnostic of national monitoring and evaluation systems – methodological reflections
This article reports on a diagnostic study carried out to understand the gender responsiveness of the national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of Benin, South Africa and Uganda.Recommendation of the Council on public policy evaluation
This recommendation on public policy evaluation, created by the OECD, encourages governments to institutionalise public policy evaluation across all government areas.Recommandation du Conseil sur l’évaluation des politiques publiques
Cette recommandation sur l'évaluation des politiques publiques, créée par l'OCDE, encourage les gouvernements à institutionnaliser l'évaluation des politiques publiques dans tous les domaines gouvernementaux.Evaluation capacity development: A diagnostic guide and action framework
This guide is intended to help governments and development agencies develop a national or sectoral evaluation system by providing a detailed checklist of issues to consider for building a country's evaluation capacity.Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems: Better evidence, better policies, better development results
This book from UNICEF provides a number of chapters considering why country-led monitoring and evaluation systems are important and some best practice examples of how they have been used.National Evaluation Capacity in Uganda
This paper by Margaret Kakenda (President, Uganda Evaluation Association) provides an overview of the Ugandan national integrated M&E Framework as of 2009 and its structural arrangements, including a directorate of Monitoring and EvaluaNational Policy on Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation - Uganda
This Ugandan national policy, published in 2013, applies to all public policies, strategies, programmes and projects managed by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, Local Governments, Parastatals and Executing Agencies of public programmes.An African approach for gauging the gender effectiveness of national M&E systems: An IDEV article
This 12-page Twende Mbele paper presents the findings from a diagnostic study used to determine the gender responsiveness of national monitoring and evaluation systems in Benin, South Africa and Uganda.World Food Program (WFP) evaluation capacity development strategy (2020-2024)
This Evaluation Capacity Development Strategy sets out WFP's approach to developing staff evaluation skills and capacity, addressing gaps between current WFP evaluation capacities and those required to achieve the organisation's objectives.Factors influencing the performance of monitoring and evaluation systems in non-government organizations in Lira district, northern Uganda
This thesis for the Masters degree in Monitoring and Evaluation from Uganda Technology and Management University investigates the factors that affect the performance of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems in non-governmental organizThematicAnalysis.net
This website describes thematic analysis, "a range of qualitative research methods that are used for exploring and interpreting patterned meaning across datasets."Landscape analysis equity centered evaluation
This Southern-led research was facilitated by six Global South organizations from Latin America, Asia and Africa who joined forces to transform inequitable practices mainstreamed in the evaluation of international cooperation initiatives woCritical systems heuristics: A systematic review
This paper argues that critical systems heuristics (CSH) has been an influential approach, but one that is underutilised compared with other methods.Integrating a transformative equity criterion into evaluations for promoting transformative systemic change
This guide sets out the rationale for why transformative equity needs to be addressed by all evaluations, especially in the South African context of high inequality, and how this might be done during the commissioning, design and conduct ofInstitutionalizing evaluation: A review of international experience
This report, written by Bertha Briceño and Marie M.Evaluation standards for Latin America and the Caribbean
The evaluation standards for Latin America and the Caribbean were developed by a working group of the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization (ReLAC), with support from DEval’s evaluation capacityDiretrizes de Avaliação para a América Latina e o Caribe
Uma iniciativa da Rede de Monitoramento, Avaliação e Sistematização da América Latina e Caribe (ReLAC), em colaboração com DEval- FOCELAC+.Estándares de Evaluación para América Latina y el Caribe
Una iniciativa de la Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización de América Latina y el Caribe (ReLAC), con el apoyo de DEval- FOCELAC+.