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Developing and evaluating complex interventions: new guidance
This paper, prepared by Peter Craig, Paul Dieppe, Sally Macintyre, Susan Michie, Irwin Nazareth and Mark Petticrew for the Medical Research Council, outlines strategies for the development, implement
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Essential tools to track your social media data
This infographic by Infographic World identifies the key data to be measured and specific tools and applications for tracking different social media profiles.
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Simplifying complexity
This presentation, given by Eric Berlow for TED, highlights a variety of tips that can be used to distill complex issues so they are more simple by using a graphic of the US strategy in Afghanistan.
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Ralph Stacey's agreement & certainty matrix
This paper from Brenda Zimmerman outlines the use of Ralph Stacey's Agreement & Certainty Matrix.
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Complicated and Complex Systems: What Would Successful Reform of Medicare Look Like?
This paper, written by Sholom Glouberman and Brenda Zimmerman for the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, looks at the health care
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Thinking systemically: Seeing from simple to complex in impact evaluation
This slide show is from a presentation given by Professor Patricia Rogers, Dr.
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The Cynefin Framework
This video from Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge introduces the Cynefin Framework which is a tool that allows the user to see things from different points of view, assimilate complex concepts
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Moving from outputs to outcomes
This report by Burt Perrin offers evidence that countries are moving away from evaluating the performance of government on activities, inputs and outputs, and focusing instead on a results-driven approach.
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Using (Reach and) Results Chains to Understand (Plan, Measure and Evaluate) Complex Multi-level Interventions
A powerpoint put together by Steve Montague.
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What is a Results/Performance Based Delivery System?
This resource is an invited presentation to the European Parliament committee on regional development.
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Implementing the vision: addressing challenges to results-focused management and budgeting
Burt Perrin's 2002 report to the OECD outlines common challenges in performance measurement and results-based management, and identifies potential solutions to these.
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2013 Spring report of the Auditor General of Canada: Chapter 1—Status report on evaluating the effectiveness of programs
This report presents the results of a performance audit conducted by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.
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Centre of Excellence for Evaluation (CEE)
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's Centre of Excellence in Evaluation (CEE) provided advice and guidance on evaluation practices across the federal government.
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Participatory video and the most significant change. A guide for facilitators
The toolkit is designed to support you in planning and carrying out evaluations using participatory video (PV) with the most significant change (MSC) technique, or PVMSC for short.
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Evaluating Human Capital Projects
Evaluating Human Capital Projects is a practical guide to planning, evaluating and improving all types of human capital projects. Its central theme is that organisations do not always value 'softer' investment in people as highly as o
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Policy on Evaluation – Frequently Asked Questions
This web page from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat provides answers to eight frequently asked questions about their 2009 Policy on Evaluation.
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Standard on Evaluation for the Government of Canada
This web page from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat outlines a standard for all evaluations taking place by Canadian Government agencies.
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Theory-based approaches to evaluation: Concepts and practices
This web page from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat provides an outline of some of the key concepts of theory-based approaches to evaluation.
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OECD’s Data Portal, full of interactive dataviz, now in public beta
This blog post by Dean Meyers for VizWorld reviews the new data portal from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC
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5 differences between complexity & systems thinking
This blog post by Sonja Blignaut for More Beyond discusses some of the clear distinctions between complexity thinking and systems thinking.
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The Quick and Dirty on Data Visualization
This blog post by Nancy Duarte for the Harvard Business Review outlines five questions that should be asked before deciding how to visualise data.
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Review of evaluation approaches and methods for interventions related to violence against women and girls (VAWG)
This paper, written by Michaela Raab and Wolfgang Stuppert for the UK Department for International Development (DfID), assesses the
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Embracing Complexity in Social Enterprise Evaluation
This lecture, given by Brenda Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Policy at York University’s Schulich School of Business, outlines a number of approaches for addressing complexity in evaluations.
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How to do a rigorous, evidence-focused literature review in international development
This guidance note from Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Richard Mallett of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) outlines an eight-stage approach to writing a literature review that complies with the principles of a sys
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Using humanitarian evaluation for change: Insights from humanitarian practitioners
This guide, written by Alistair Hallam and Francesca Bonino for Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), outlines a framework for strengthening the capacity of humanitarian ev
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Guidance for the design of qualitative case study evaluation
This guide, written by Professor Frank Vanclay of the Department of Cultural Geography, University of Groningen, provides notes
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Public Service Transformation: Introductory guide to evaluation
This guide from the Public Service Transformation Network aims to support evaluation of the effectiveness of work to transform public services.
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From intended strategies to unintended outcomes: The impact of change recipient sensemaking
This paper, written by Julia Balogun and Gerry Johnson, outlines a longitudinal, real-time analysis of planned change implementation to provide an explanation for the unintended results that come about from evaluation strategies.
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Measuring health promotion impacts: A guide to impact evaluation in integrated health promotion
This guide from the Victorian Government Department of Human Services aims to assist in the design and implementation of impact evaluation methods and indicators for health care pr
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Choosing qualitative data analysis software
This chapter section by Eben A. Weitzman guides readers through some of the important considerations when choosing appropriate qualitative analysis software.
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How do we know if a program made a difference? A guide to statistical methods for program impact evaluation
This guide, written by Peter M. Lance, David K. Guilkey, Aiko Hattori and Gustavo Angeles for MEASURE Evaluation, outlines core statistical and econometric methods for program impact evaluation.
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Haiku Deck - Presentation Making Software
A free and easy to use platform available online and as an iPad app for quickly making simple, well laid-out presentations.
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