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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2009 This five-day program on evaluating social programs provides a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies.
Courses have been recorded and loaded as videos online, split up by topic. You may also access the course lecture notes and assignments.Author: Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, & Abhijit Banerjee Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: May 1, 2009 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Advocacy For Poverty Eradication And Empowerment: Ways Forward For Advocacy Impact Assessment In this paper, Linda Mayoux examines and builds on advocacy evaluation frameworks such as those used by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the U.K. Department for International Development, and international NGOs.
The paper:Author: Mayoux, Linda Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2003 Be the first to review this resource! Download (550.73 KB) -
Advocacy, Poiltics & Philanthropy: A Reflection on a Decade of Immigration Reform Advocacy This Innovation Network report examines the impact and shares lessons from Atlantic’s $70.3 million
effort between 2004 and 2014 to reform the U.S. immigration system.
Among the topics covered:
Author: Innovation Network and Atlantic Philanthropies Type: Research & Reports Date: Mar 1, 2016 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.98 MB) -
Advocacy, Politics & Philanthropy: A Reflection on a Decade of Immigration Reform Advocacy This Innovation Network report examines the impact and shares lessons from Atlantic’s $70.3 million effort between 2004 and 2014 to reform the U.S.Author: Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, Veena Pankaj Type: Research & Reports Date: May 1, 2015 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.98 MB) -
Brief: "Pathways for Change: 6 Theories about How Policy Change Happens" ORS' Sarah Stachowiak discusses six theories on the process of policy change. This brief was published with the support of The California Endowment. Author: Organizational Research Services Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2009 Be the first to review this resource! Download (200.21 KB) -
Coalition Assessment: Approaches for Measuring Capacity and Impact Why assess coalition capacity? How should a coalition be assessed? How can coalition assessment data be analyzed and used?
Author: Veena Pankaj, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery Type: Research & Reports Date: Feb 4, 2014 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (768.05 KB) -
Gender and Poverty Project: Gender Analysis Tools Gender Analysis is a tool for examining the differences between the roles that women and men play, the different levels of power they hold, their differing needs, constraints and opportunities, and the impact of these differences on their lives.
This three-part Gender Analysis toolkit contains the following sections:
- Definitions
- Part I: The Basics
- Part II: Taking Steps to Do Gender Analysis in Our Communities
- Part III: Gender Analysis Tools
Author: Toby Goldberg Leong, Catherine Lang, and Marina Biasutti Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2005 Be the first to review this resource! Download (484.32 KB) -
How to Use Data Visualization to Better Tell Your Story Memos and metrics, emails and texts, newsletters and reports: Is your organization suffering from information overload? We consume 34 gigabytes, or 100,500 words, of information every day. Our brains are overwhelmed and struggling to keep up. Data visualization–or dataviz–is one of the strongest weapons against information overload. Author: Ann Emery Type: Opinion (blog, editorial) Date: Feb 1, 2014 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Power, Participation, and State-based Politics: An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Collaborations that Count Initiative The Applied Research Center (ARC) conducted a two-year participatory evaluation to provide an account of the Ford Foundation's "Collaborations That Count Initiative." The report identifies areas in which the 11 statewide collaborations succeeded, and draws attention to ways in which support to collaboration might be more effectively provided in the future. Author: Applied Research Center Type: Research & Reports Date: Apr 21, 2004 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.85 MB) -
Program Evaluation: Igniting the Untapped Power An introductory piece about the power of evaluation, including Innovation Network's approach and things to consider before beginning an evaluation effort. Author: Innovation Network, Inc. Type: Opinion (blog, editorial) Date: Mar 1, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Download (227.62 KB) -
Remarks made at the Environmental Evaluators’ Network Forum: NAVIGATING EVALUATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE AGE OF OBAMA The author draws on her vast evaluation experience, especially in federal evaluation, to confront issues of complexity in evaluation. She offers the idea of using comprehensive checklists, and supplies her own example.
An exerpt:
Author: Eleanor Chelimsky Type: Opinion (blog, editorial) Date: Jun 8, 2010 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (81.2 KB) -
Three Blind Men and an Elephant: The Power of Faceted Analytical Displays In this paper, the author addersses the insights that emerge when software enables us to view a set of data from several perspectives at the same time. He describes a screen that contains multiple concurrent views of a common data set so that comparisons can be made as a “faceted analytical display.” This approach to information display provides a means to expand analytical reach by viewing data in this way.
Author: Stephen Few Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: Jan 1, 2007 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1023.41 KB) -
What is Success? This publication, which draws on VeneKlasen and Miller’s book A New Weave of Power, People & Politics, argues that a successful advocacy effort needs to produce change in five dimensions: Government, Private sector, Civil society, Political space and culture, and the Individual. The publication also offers an Advocacy Action and Impact Chart that can be used as a checklist planning and evaluation. The framework is shaped by the experience of long-time social justice advocates around the world who found that advocacy success needs to produce multidimensional change. Author: VeneKlasen, Lisa, and Miller, Valerie Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: Jun 14, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Download (24.54 KB)