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Advocacy Matters: Helping children change their world
… them to carry out advocacy work. The guide consists of two different resources, a facilitator's manual and a … participants manual. It provides a range of practical and theory based exercises that allow the user to identify their … resources 132 … Advocacy Matters: Helping children change their world …Amplifying Learning in Systems Change Investments: An Experience in Developmental Evaluation
… for Collaborative Learning (OMG) describes the experience of using a developmental evaluation approach in order to … of specific outcomes Recognize the dual purpose of a Theory of Change: To guide implementation and learning Putting Lessons …Enhancing Reporting of Behavior Change Intervention Evaluations
… in experimental design (randomised control trials) type of evaluations of HIV/AIDS behaviour change interventions. These are: The following …Using Most Significant Change to measure impact
… workshop, Odile Drive David Doréus presented an overview of how she has used the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique to measure impact in community health, … and when to use MSC for M&E; and gave guidance on the use of the technique to help improve communications with project …Participatory video and the most significant change. A guide for facilitators
… using participatory video (PV) with the most significant change (MSC) technique, or PVMSC for short. This is a … evaluation and learning that amplifies the voices of participants and helps organisations to better understand … to articles and publications where we have discussed the theory and practice of using PV for monitoring and evaluation …Elements for an M&E framework for climate change adaptation projects
… for these projects. The document presents the review of M&E systems of seventeen GEF projects. With those inputs as the basis of … on M&E.Contents Contents The GEF and Adaptation to Climate Change Monitoring and Evaluation within the Adaptation …Living into developmental evaluation: Reflections on changing practice
… & James L. Knight Foundation on a developmental evaluation of its Community Information Challenge project – a 5-year, …The 'Most Significant Change' technique - A guide to its use
… reading for anyone seeking to use the 'Most Significant Change' (MSC) technique. Written by the two developers of MSC (Rick Davies and Jess Dart), it provides an overview, … contexts. Contents Chapter One: A Ten Minute Overview of MSC 8 Chapter Two: Ten Steps to Implementing MSC 15 …Aggregating, presenting and valuing climate change impacts
… This report aims to provide a picture of the impact of climate change resulting from the emissions of greenhouse gasses. In …The use of social network analysis tools in the evaluation of social change communications
… fields. It also discuss limitations and opportunities of using SNA. Excerpt " This paper was produced for the Communication for Social Change Consortium, as a contribution to their paper for … Where there is no central planner The uses of theory Scalability Limitations Opportunities … The use of …Defining response capacity to enhance climate change policy
… in Environmental Science & Policy , highlights the lack of consistency between who makes climate change adaptation and mitigation decisions and who implements … climate policy can be implemented. "First we frame the set of responses at the national policy level as a trade-off …Making adaptation count: Concepts and options for monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation
… This paper offers a monitoring and evaluation framework of climate change interventions. It addresses the steps and processes … context. Contents Results based management Desk review Theory of Change Risk assessment Vulnerability assessment …Environment, climate change and assessment - towards a holistic view
… This blog by Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility, points out that … environmental problems. These problems include climate change, diminishing biodiversity, pollution, waste, and …Use of most significant change in evaluating school cultures in South Australia
… This is a summary of the example of how most significant change (MSC) was used to measure “perceptions of ‘significant … that connected them to the latest educational research and theory about learning, critical reflection and whole-school …Evaluation at the nexus between nature and humanity for transformational change
… from Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times argues for the need to transform evaluation in the light of current environmental crises and sets out the major ways … crises and their implications, discussing climate change, chemical pollution, biodiversity loss, and pandemics. …Impact evaluation and interventions to address climate change: A scoping study
… for Impact Evaluation (3ie) analyses several climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives and concludes … that if funds continue to be spent on these kinds of projects, they should be based on sound evidence of what works. Section 5 focuses on impact evaluation, and …Climate change impact and adaptation study for Bangkok metropolitan region
… from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's analysis of climate change impact and adaptation in the Bangkok Metropolitan … report concerns climate change, and provides an analysis of climate change impacts and adaptation options for the …20 years of outcome mapping: Evolving practices for transformative change
… This paper reflects on the evolving use of Outcome Mapping 20 years after the first publication on this approach. The resource also provides a "set of guiding practices to support transformative change": " Three principles inherent in Outcome Mapping …The theory underlying concept maps and how to construct and use them
… This guide provides a comprehensive summary of concept maps and how to use them. "Concept maps are … include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by … Archiving Expert Knowledge Conclusions References … The theory underlying concept maps and how to construct and use …Developmental Evaluation: An Approach to Evaluating Complex Social Change Initiatives
… Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity and Change. The presentation provides an overview of development evaluation and outlines how it is different to … approaches. Finally, the presentation provides examples of development evaluation in practice. The slides for the …The most significant change approach for monitoring an Australian extension project
… article from PLA Notes describes how the Most Significant Change approach was used during a rural extension project in … an appropriate and credible process for monitoring change, helps to promote organisational learning, and can be … Drysdale, Cole, & Saddington, 2000) … The most significant change approach for monitoring an Australian extension project …Outcome mapping: A method for tracking behavioural changes in development programs
… This guide published by the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative provides a detailed overview of using outcome mapping as an evaluation tool. Contents … in behaviour Outcome mapping terms The three stages of outcome mapping Figure 1. The three stages and twelve …Advanced content analysis: Can artificial intelligence accelerate theory-driven complex program evaluation?
… This paper presents the methodology and results of an assessment of the applicability and utility of artificial intelligence for advanced theory-based content analysis. The pilot study tests the … usefulness, and added value of AI for advanced theory-based content analysis within the framework of IEG's …Health impacts of climate change: Adaptation strategies for Western Australia
… This report from the Western Australian Department of Health aims to provide an overview of the impact of climate change on the health of people living in Western Australia in …From intended strategies to unintended outcomes: The impact of change recipient sensemaking
… Johnson, outlines a longitudinal, real-time analysis of planned change implementation to provide an explanation for the … is well documented. This longitudinal, real-time analysis of planned change implementation provides an explanation for …Most Significant Change (MSC) used for NGO self-evaluation process
… from Capacity.org outlines the process and findings of an NGO self-evaluation process that used Most Significant Change to evaluate the organisational development services … process was designed with the explicit purpose of ’enhancing CABUNGO’s learning in order to improve …Operationalising a resilience approach to adapting an urban delta to uncertain climate changes
… a system-oriented strategy: strengthening the resilience of the impacted system to climatic changes. A central … this paper is: what could a resilience approach to climate change adaptation entail for an urban delta? The paper aims to operationalise the concept of resilience. Similar to the Vancouver study [20], we …Planning and Evaluating for Social Change: An Evening at SFU with Michael Quinn Patton
… This video is a recording of a lecture and workshop presented by Dr. Michael Quinn … . The presentation focused on the changing landscape of evaluation and was supported by examples and interactive … to connect people in order to create more effective social change strategies. Source: and SFUcontinuingstudies This is …Impact of climate change and development scenarios on flow patterns in the Okavango River
… This paper analyses the water flow patterns of the Okavango River in order to develop a water … tool that can be used to assess the impact of climate change on the river. "The aim of the work …The psychology of climate change communication: A guide for scientists, journalists, educators, political aides, and the interested public
… while focused on communicating research on climate change, will be useful for anyone interested in the theory behind communication and behaviour change and those … Decisions Key features This guide covers a number of topics related to scientific communication. Key chapters …A guide to participatory monitoring of behaviour change communication for HIV/AIDS
… approach to evaluation. Excerpt "A wide array of participatory appraisal tools and materials about … process, enabling them to keep their fingers on the pulse of change in their communities. PM ensures that both staff and …Gender and economy in Melanesian communities: A manual of indicators and tools to track change
… McKinnon, Jo Crawford and Claire Slatter, provides a range of tools that can be used to collect information about gender … sensitive way. Excerpt "To understand how economic change is influencing relationships between women and men in … in time and then compared. The manual outlines a range of simple data collection tools that can be used at yearly or …