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CEDIL Methods Brief - Using big data for impact evaluations
This paper provides detailed guidance on using big data to fill data gaps in impact evaluations.Shaping international evaluation: A 30-year journey
This book from Universalia Management Group presents major trends that have influenced international evaluation and provides an overview of the evolution of evaluation within specific sectors, such as the environment and agriculture.Multi-stakeholder partnerships guide - Online portal
This online portal includes over useful 60 tools and methods especially selected to support and evaluate multi-stakeholder partnership processes.Process tracing and contribution analysis: A combined approach to generative causal inference for impact evaluation
This article, written by Barbara Befani and John Mayne for the IDS Bulletin (Volume 45 Number 6), outlines how the combined use of contribution analysis (CA) with process tracing (PT) can shift the focus of impact evaluation from ‘assessingA report on the mini-participatory learning and action (PLA) exercise in Zambia
This report is a concise summary of research evaluating the suitability and availability of reproductive health services for youth in Zambia using the Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) approach.Dealing with paradox – Stories and lessons from the first three years of consortium-building
This case study documents and reflects upon the building of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (recently re-named START Network)Rationality, irrationality, reality: The uneasy marriage between decision-making & evidence (Webinar)
This webinar by the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) and the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Francophone Africa (CLEAR-FA) explored how policymakers and development practitioners can leverage data and evidence to shape pRationalité, irrationalité, réalité: Le mariage difficile de la prise de décision et les données probantes
Ce webinaire organisé par l’Initiative mondiale pour l’évaluation (GEI) et le Centre d’apprentissage sur l’évaluation et les résultats pour l’Afrique francophone (CLEAR-FA) a exploré comment les décideurs politiques et les professionnels duNational Evaluation Capacities (NEC) webinar: Engaging youth, addressing crisis, and building resilience (GEI and UNDP)
This National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) conference webinar explores the themes of youth engagement in national evaluation systems and the challenges associated with evaluating and strengthening these systems in crisis settings.Evaluation and Gender Equality: Why we need more feminist evaluations (Webinar)
This webinar explored the perspectives of four women who shared their organizations' experiences in making evaluations more influential in promoting gender equality.Participatory impact assessment: A design guide
This guide, written by Andy Catley, John Burns, Dawit Abebe, and Omeno Suji for Tufts' Feinstein International Center, provides a framework for practitioners to design and implement a Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA).Evaluation standards for Aotearoa New Zealand
ANZEA (Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association) has worked in partnership with SuPERU to develop a set of Aotearoa-specific Evaluation Standards that set out the expectations of the evaluation process, practices and products.Surveys in social research
This sixth edition of Surveys In Social Research by David de Vaus provides detailed guidance and advice on planning, conducting and analysing social surveys and emphasises the links between theory and research, the logic and interpretationAre you writing an evaluation report?
This South Australian Community Health Research Unit (SACHRU) paper describes the process for writing evaluation reports in the format of a template that can be adapted for use in any program context.Broadening the range of designs and methods for impact evaluations
The working paper, written by Elliot Stern, Nicoletta Stame, John Mayne, Kim Forss, Rick Davies and Barbara Befani for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), describes how theory-based, case-based and participatory meCausal link monitoring brief
Causal Link Monitoring (CLM) integrates design and monitoring to support adaptive management of projects.Addressing attribution through contribution analysis: Using performance measures sensibly
This article from the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation outlines the key steps involved with using contribution analysis as a tool to discover the contribution a program has made to particular outcomes.International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
The International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation is a network that brings together national and regional evaluation associations from around the world.Prosaic or profound? The adoption of systems ideas by impact evaluation
This article, written by Bob Williams, argues that the systems field may be able to address vulnerabilities of impact evaluation.Baseline basics
Baseline Basics is a short introduction to conducting a baseline study, focusing on the key concepts and practices, and pointing to additional resources for more detail.W.K. Kellogg Foundation logic model guide
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Guide shows how to develop a results chain model.W.K. Kellogg Foundation evaluation handbook
This handbook provides guidance for conducting and managing evaluations, including a conceptual framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool.Gender analysis tools
The Gender Analysis Tool, produced by Global Affairs Canada (Formerly Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA), can be used for examining gendered roles and fCoding part 2: Thematic coding
This video tutorial from Graham H Gibbs (2010) provides an overview of thematic coding and examples to demostrate how it is done and how codes can be applied to the data.The engagement toolkit
This toolkit offers an extensive but not exhaustive list of engagement methods that can be applied throughout different stages of the evaluation process.Coding part 1: Alan Bryman's 4 stages of qualitative analysis
In this web video, Graham R Gibbs provides an overview of qualitative analysis based on Alan Bryman's four stages of analysis.Indigenous evaluation framework: Telling our story in our place and time
This book discusses the efforts of American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) communities to reclaim and revitalize their education systems through tribally controlled colleges, universities, and K–12 schools.Realist impact evaluation: An introduction
Realist impact evaluation is an approach to impact evaluation that emphasises the importance of context for programme outcomes.Introduction to qualitative research methodology
This manual, written by Karina Kielmann, Fabian Cataldo and Janet Seeley, aims to give readers of a non-scientific background an introduction to key theoretical concepts and methodologies in qualitative research.Werner Ulrich's home page
This website provides a variety of resources from Werner Ulrich's work in a range of philosophical and research areas with a particular focus on his own work in critical systems thinking and practice or Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH).Mini-primer of Critical Systems Heuristics
This short summary of Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) by Werner Ulrich gives an overview of what CSH is and how it can be applied.The rigor of case-based causal analysis: Busting myths through a demonstration
This paper focuses on the utilisation of case-based designs for conducting causal analysis and dispelling two misconceptions about their use in the context of evaluation.