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Young Lives Methods Guide: Introducing Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing
This guide describes how Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty, used Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) in place of paper based questionnaires.World Bank Group Assistance to Low-Income Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
This independent evaluation conducted by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, assesses the impact and effectiveness of strategies and assistance programs implementeInnovative approach to evaluating interventions in fragile and conflict-affected states: the case of Helmand.
This working paper from Coffey International Development outlines the challenges faced when undertaking evaluation in fragile and conflict-affected states and providConflict-sensitive approaches to development practice.
This guide, written by Cynthia Gaigals with Manuela Leonhardt for Safer World provides a critical overview of different approaches used by a variety of groups in conflict-proneEvaluating, measuring, monitoring and benchmarking
This paper from the New Nature of Business (archived link) provides a detailed list of tools that can be used to assess the impact of a businePersonal SWOT Analysis Example
This example of a SWOT Analysis from Lucidchart uses two fictional characters, Superman and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, to demonstrate how the tool can be usedConcept Map Examples
This website from Lucidchart provides a range of examples of Concept Maps and allows the user to create their own or use one of the templates provided.Case selection techniques in Process-tracing and the implications of taking the study of causal mechanisms seriously
This paper by Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pedersen analyses the three variants of process tracing and goes on to develop guidelines for using each of them.Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines
In this book Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pedersen refine the definition of process tracing by breaking it into three different variants.Handbook for participatory action research, planning and evaluation
This guide, written by Jacques M Chevalier and Daniel J Buckles for Participatory Action Research, provides a set of tools and processes that can be used to engage people in complexCommunity Screenings for Participatory Video
This guide, written by Gareth Benest for InsightShare, provides advice running community screenings as part of a participatory video process.A new tool in the toolbox: using mobile text for food security surveys in a conflict setting
This blog post from Jean-Martin Bauer, Koffi Akakpo, Marie Enlund and Silvia Passeri for Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) analyses the results of a household food security assessment cRevised Evaluation Policy of UNICEF
This document form UNICEF outlines a revised policy for conducting evaluations.DFID’s Approach to Value for Money (VfM)
This guide from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) sets out the principles that are used to ensure value fValue for Money: A Plan to Develop a Methodology to Audit Environmental Issues
This paper, written by Ximena Mura Alvarez, outlines a strategy to create a Value For Money (VFM) methodology for including environmental issues as part of a VFM audit.The Big Push Forward
This website provides a range of resources and discussion about approaches for assessing transformative development processes.Measuring the Un-Measurable: Solutions to Measurement Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-affected Environments
This guide, written by Vanessa Corlazzoli and Jonathan White for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), was developed tSystems-oriented evaluation
In this presentation, Dr. Beverly Parsons for The Evaluation Center, outlines a framework for developing a systems-oriented evaluation.Contemporary Thinking about Causation in Education Evaluation: A Dialogue with Tom Cook and Michael Scriven
In this presentation, Tom Cook and Michael Scriven for The Evaluation Center, discuss the latest methodological developments in using randomised-control trials in educational and other&nMonitoring and evaluating policy influence and advocacy
The report was commissioned to help Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation staff approach the evaluation of their policy-advocacy work. It details the evolution of M&E in advocacy and policy influence, discusses the theoWill that successful intervention over there get results over here?
This blog post and its associated replies, written by Jed Friedman for the World Bank, describes a process of using analytic methods to overcome some of the assumptions that must be made when extrapolating results from evaluations to otherThe Data Visualisation Catalogue
This website, developed by Severino Ribecca, provides a comprehensive catalogue of data visualisation methods.Excel charts: Pie charts
This webpage, written by Jorge Camoes for ExcelCharts, outlines the arguments for and against using pie charts and then provides detailed advice and some dos and don'ts for using them.12 Valuable Tips for Using Wordle in the Classroom
This blog post from 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning outlines 12 tips for using Wordle in theTagxedo
Tagxedo is a tool that allows you to create word clouds from online material be entering the web address and then choosing the shape you would like the it to appear as.TagCrowd
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud.Word clouds considered harmful
This article by Jacob Harris for NiemanLab provides a careful consideration of the argument against word clouds.StatPlanet - Create interactive maps & graphs
This tool from StatSilk allows the user to create interactive maps which are fully customisable.Weave
This tool from the Open Indicators Consortium (OIC) is a visualisation platform which allows the user to integrate, analyse and visualise data at “nested” levels of geography, and to disseminate the results in a web page.How to geotag images
This blog post by Darren Rowse for Digital Photography School provides detailed guidance on geotagging images.Classification of Data
This webpage from the Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance (GITTA) looks at he process of classifying data in relation to mapping and cartography.How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools
This tutorial by Nathan Yau for Flowing Data provides step-by-step guidance for producing a choropleth map by using free online tools.