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Using most significant change in final evaluations: A Mali case study
… International, discusses how she used the most significant change (MSC) approach in a final evaluation of a girl’s education project in Mali. The interactive … evaluations. Watch the webinar … Using most significant change in final evaluations: A Mali case study …Steps - Steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change
… process for planning, monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects. This tool is no longer available … make up the program, with each step including a range of resources to support its use. Getting Started Defining the … - Steps to transforming evaluation practice for social change …Integrating a transformative equity criterion into evaluations for promoting transformative systemic change
… all evaluations, especially in the South African context of high inequality, and how this might be done during the commissioning, design and conduct of an evaluation. Authors and their affiliation SAMEA (the … equity; Content and intention: What is the transformative change potential of the intervention ? To what extent are …The most significant change: Using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation - insight guide
… monitoring and evaluation, in particular the combination of Most Significant Change (MSC) ideas with PV. Insight is a UK/France-based organisation pioneering the use of participatory video (PV) as a tool for empowering …Participatory tools and techniques for assessing climate change impacts and exploring adaptation options
… communities and planners understand the hazards and risks of climate change, allowing them to assess the vulnerability of their livelihoods. " The kit consists of a range of tools …The national adaptive capacity framework: Key institutional functions for a changing climate
… Adaptive Capacity (NAC) Framework represents a new way of thinking about adaptation planning and evaluation, which … Institute (WRI) in consultation with a wide range of adaptation experts and stakeholders. NAC takes as its … of a particular intervention (e.g., a discrete regulatory change, or introduction of a particular technology) may find …Reflections on innovation, assessment and social change processes: A SPARC case study, India
… This paper, written by Sheela Patel, provides a case study of the development of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres … the methodology and partnerships that underpin the change process. Section 3 describes in some …Complexity-aware monitoring, evaluation & learning tools for social and behavior change interventions
… design and evaluate complexity-aware social and behavior Change interventions. This resource and the following … Children Key features The toolkit addresses three aspects of complexity: Contextual complexity: the fact that the … and implementation process itself shape outcomes of an intervention. Temporal complexity: interventions evolve …Appreciative Inquiry: An approach for learning and change based on our own best practices
… inquiry principles, methods, domains, and a recent example of its use. " Since it was conceptualized in the late 1980s as a research methodology and change paradigm, the technique of ‘appreciative inquiry’ (AI) has proved to be highly …Using humanitarian evaluation for change: Insights from humanitarian practitioners
… outlines a framework for strengthening the capacity of humanitarian evaluations. The main aim of the paper is to motivate and encourage the discussion of … of recommendations 78 … Using humanitarian evaluation for change: Insights from humanitarian practitioners …gLOCAL 2024 opening event: Rethinking evaluation: Driving transformative change (Webinar)
… discussion on how evaluation can drive transformative change. The session featured inspiring and heart-warming … who shared their personal journeys through the world of evaluation and their perspectives on why and how … to transformation. The event signals the opening of gLOCAL, an annual knowledge-sharing event organized by the …Etudes De L'AFD N° 2 | Analyser, suivre et évaluer sa contribution au changement social : donner du sens à la mesure des pratiques de solidarité internationale et de coopération décentralisée
Dans le champ de la solidarité internationale et de la coopération décentralisée, nombreux sont les acteurs qui visent à orienter ou contribuer au changement social.Monitoring and evaluating advocacy: lessons from Oxfam's Climate Change campaign
… experience suggests that while some ‘traditional’ elements of M&E are helpful in advocacy work, a greater focus on … the organisational as well as methodological challenges of integrating M&E into advocacy campaigns: without a culture … and evaluating advocacy: lessons from Oxfam's Climate Change campaign …Designing initiative evaluation: A systems-orientated framework for evaluating social change efforts
… and includes four general designs that can be used. Each of the designs has separate sections on: designing; planning … A project evaluation focuses on the specific project of a grantee and serves the needs of the project leaders and … A systems-orientated framework for evaluating social change efforts …Participation, relationships and dynamic change: new thinking on evaluating the work of international networks
… This paper from the Development Planning Unit of University College London raises some key issues related to network evaluation and provides a number of tools that allow the levels and quality of participation … exploration … Participation, relationships and dynamic change: new thinking on evaluating the work of international …Learning to Make All Voices Count - Leveraging Complexity-Aware MEL to Pursue Change in Complex Systems
… is a focus on complexity-aware MEL as a crucial component of this approach. This resource and the following … Global Integrity Sue Soal, Independent Consultant Year of publication 2017 Type of resource Discussion paper Key … exploring how MEL can be used to strengthen efforts pursue change in complex systems. For a full report on the project, …Capturing changes in women’s lives: The experiences of Oxfam Canada in applying feminist evaluation principles to monitoring and evaluation practice
… principles. The approach, developed for Engendering Change, a multi-year, donor co-funded 'standalone' women's … The article describes Oxfam Canada’s understanding of feminist evaluation and what was believed had a potential … monitoring and evaluation approach. Three examples of evaluative exercises used in the Engendering Change …Etudes De L'AFD N° 2 | Analysis, monitoring, and evaluation of contributions to social change - Meaningfully measuring international solidarity and decentralized cooperation
… There are many actors in the field of international solidarity and decentralized development … cooperation who seek to orient or contribute to “social change”. While they agree that social change cannot be … they do not all share the same outlook on the type of social change desired. Social change is a recurrent theme …Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change
… In this video of a session from the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2012, approaches to the use of data and informational visualization are demonstrated and … strengthen communications and improve the likelihood of your message cutting through the clutter To share … 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change …A guide to developing, refining, and using milestones
… This guide provides a set of recommended steps for defining, refining, and integrating milestones while developing a theory of change. This resource is part of the MEL toolkit for …TOCO
… Theory of change Online (TOCO) is web-based software (no download … required) that you can use to design, edit and store your theory of change. You can use the software to learn the …Présentation des méthodes de collecte et d'analyse de données dans l'évaluation d'impact
Les évaluations d’impact ne doivent pas se cantonner à déterminer l’ampleur des effets (c’est-à-dire l’impact moyen), mais doivent également identifier qui a bénéficié de ces programmes ou politiques et comment.Monitoring & evaluation of advocacy campaigns literature review
… (EAA), examines current thinking in the evaluation of advocacy. The review was developed inorder to inform the … current literature is the need for advocates to develop a theory of change to demonstrate that their advocacy design is sound. A …Making causal claims
… authored by John Mayne for the Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative argues the need for a different … perspective on causality. That one can still speak of the intervention making a difference in the sense that the … causal packages Approaches to demonstrating causality Theory of change approaches to showing a contributory cause …Terms of reference for an action research approach to evaluation of She Can project - ActionAid
… This Terms of Reference (ToR) outlines the basis for the phased theory-based evaluation of the ‘She Can’ project. She Can … research to develop and test the project’s theory of change. The following information was provided to …Contribution analysis: An approach to exploring cause and effect
… This brief from the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC) explores contribution analysis and how it can be used to provide credible assessments of cause and effect. "A key question in the assessment of … addressed Box 1. Contribution Analysis Step 2: Develop the theory of change and the risks to it Figure 1. A Theory of …NPC's approach to developing an impact measurement framework
… the difference they make. Contents Step one: Map your theory of change A theory of change should be at the heart of your …Evaluating complex and unfolding interventions in real time
… This article from Tom Ling outlines the use of uncertainty and complexity in a Theory of Change-based approach to evaluating complex interventions. …Pathways to advance professionalisation within the context of the AES
… pathways towards professionalisation within the context of the AES. These pathways are as follows: Ad hoc, … The approaches in this report are grouped into four broad change theories, drawing on the three included in Susan … capacity, and opportunity, and adding gatekeeping. Change Theory: INCREASING MOTIVATION – Active contribution to a …Causal pathways: A shared understanding
… This 2022 document by members of the Causal Pathways Initiative articulates a shared … and investigating causal pathways to better understand how change (or lack of change) has occurred and hence provide … different situations: Primarily testing a pre-planned theory of change (with its specific outcomes) Explicitly …Contribution analysis for adaptive management
… how the approach enables programmes to work with theories of change in a practical, reflexive way and how its findings can … and Giel Ton. Key features Contribution analysis is a theory-based approach that helps users arrive at conclusions …Changeroo
… Changeroo is a subscription-based Theory of Change creator. It is web-based and has a focus on allowing …