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Uses the intended uses of the evaluation by its primary intended users to guide decisions about how an evaluation should be conducted.ApproachEvaluación centrada en el uso
La Evaluación Centrada en el Uso (UFE, por sus siglas en inglés), desarrollada por Michael Quinn Patton, es un enfoque basado en el principio de que una evaluación debe ser juzgada por su utilidad para los usuarios previstos.ApproachComplexity
Complex ideas and methods have important applications for how we think about programs and policies, how we collect and analyse data, and how we report findings and support their use.ThemeThemes
PageFeminist evaluation
Feminist evaluation (FE) emphasizes participatory, empowering, and social justice agendas.ThemeGender Analysis
Whether you are an evaluator or someone commissioning evaluation, any intervention to be evaluated that takes place within human society and involves human interactions will have gendered dimensions.ThemeEvaluation and children
Evaluating the impacts of programmes and policies on children presents particular challenges. Many of these are complex and intersectoral, the impacts are often long-term, and children have particular vulnerabilities to harm.ThemeEvaluation of agricultural projects and programs
Any single agricultural project or program is necessarily part of a highly complex, interrelated system. To deliver utility and value, evaluation in the agricultural sector must take into account contextually sensitive issues.ThemeEvaluability assessment
An assessment of the extent to which an intervention can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion.ThemeEvaluating policy influence and advocacy
Influencing and informing policy is the main aim for many development organisations. However, activities directed at policy change are, in general, very hard to monitor and evaluate.ThemeEvaluating the performance of an organisation
An organisational assessment is a systematic process for obtaining valid information about the performance of an organisation and the factors that affect performance. It differs from other types of evaluations because the assessment focuses on the…Theme52 Weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 39: Professional Development Opportunities
If you are looking to learn more and hone your skills in evaluation there has never been a better time to tap into any number of fantastic free or low cost professional development opportunities.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 40: How to find evidence and use it well
When reviewing evidence for decision-making, the first challenge is deciding how to choose which types of evidence to include.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 42: Using value for money in evaluation - a conversation
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 41: Recommended content from the BetterEvaluation community
You'll find hundreds of evaluation resources on the BetterEvaluation site. Some have come from recommendations by stewards. Some have come from our writeshop project or design clinics.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 43: Celebrating one year of BetterEvaluation
This week we're celebrating the first year of BetterEvaluation since it went live to the public in October 2012. Thank you to everyone who has contributed material, reviewed content, developed the website, and participated in live events.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 44: How can monitoring data support impact evaluations?
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 45: Participatory Video for M&E - unpacking how change happened
It is time for another blog series on BetterEvaluation, and this time we will be exploring the uses of video in evaluation.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 46: An ethnography of evaluation - learning about evaluation from the inside using video
Conveying the complexities of the evaluation process isn’t easy, but video is one way to tackle the challenge. Quimera is a film company which was contracted to record the process of evaluatingBlog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 47: using video to communicate evaluation findings
In the last in our series of blogs on using video in evaluation, Glenn O'Neil joins us to discuss how you can use video to communicate your evaluation findings.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 48: What does COP19 mean for monitoring and evaluation professionals?
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 49: Evaluation e-learning in Spanish and Russian
While most of the evaluation resources on the BetterEvaluation site are in English, we're keen to provide access to resources in other languages. In 2014, making the site more accessible in different languages will be one of our priorities.Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 51: Strategies for commissioning evaluations successfully
Earlier this year I co-taught a course on Evaluation for Public Sector Managers with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), using BetterEvaluation to structure the course aBlog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 52: Holiday gifts for everyone
Blog52 weeks of BetterEvaluation Week 1: 2014 evaluation-related conferences [Updated 3rd Feb]
Happy New Year! As you start filling in your diaries and calendars (desk, wall or electronic), make some space for at least one of the evaluation conferences listed below.BlogWeek 2: Evaluation methods for large, complex, global initiatives
My 2014 evaluation events calendar was launched in earnest this week with a workshop hosted by the US Institute of Medicine focusing on evaluation methods and considerations for large-scale, complex, multi-natBlogWeek 4: The top ten developments in qualitative evaluation over the last decade – part 1
Over the next two weeks, Michael Quinn Patton joins us to give his top ten trends in qualitative evaluation over the last decade. This week, he sets out the first five.BlogWeek 5: The top ten developments in qualitative evaluation over the last decade – part 2
Last week Michael Quinn Patton shared the first five of hisBlogWeek 6: Evaluation with and by, rather than for or of, children
BetterEvaluation hosted a webinar this week with Sonal Zaveri and Mallika Samaranayake of the Community of Evaluators South Asia, on working with children in evaluation.BlogWeek 7: Innovation in evaluation
This is the first in a series of blogs on innovation which includes contributions from Thomas Winderl and Julia Coffman.BlogWeek 8: Guest blog: Innovation in development evaluation
Development aid is changing rapidly – so must development evaluation.BlogWeek 9: Innovation in evaluation part 3: what’s the latest in advocacy evaluation?
Julia Coffman is Director of the Centre for Evaluation Innovation. In the third blog of our innovation in evaluation series, she looks some recent innovations in a notoriously tricky area: advocacy evaluation.Blog