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ActionAid Update No. 2 The ActionAid Update newsletter series provides a summary of the impact of participatory policy work being undertaken by ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency. The action research project was carried out over a period of three years in four countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nepal and Uganda. In each country, a research facilitator worked with 1-3 partner organizations to explore some of the challenges they were facing with their advocacy work. Author: ActionAid International Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Apr 1, 2003
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ActionAid Update No. 3 The ActionAid Update newsletter series provides a summary of the impact of participatory policy work being undertaken by ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency. The action research project was carried out over a period of three years in four countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nepal and Uganda. In each case, a research facilitator worked with 1-3 partner organizations to explore some of the challenges they were facing with their advocacy work. Author: ActionAid International Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Jul 1, 2003 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.71 MB) -
Advocacy for Development. Effectiveness, Monitoring and Evaluation This free e-book shares important lessons from the evaluation of eight lobbying and advocacy programs carried out over 2011-2015 by alliances of civil society organizations working in international development. The e-book offers insights and practical guidelines for donors, advocates and evaluators.
Author: Jennifer B. Barrett, Margit van Wessel and Theodora Hihorst Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Mar 1, 2016 Be the first to review this resource! Download (8.53 MB) -
Advocacy Impact Assessment Guidelines This publication reviews what advocacy is, how NGOs can use it, and considerations for evaluating it. The publication outlines five "dimensions of change":
Author: Lloyd-Laney, Megan Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Mar 24, 2003 Be the first to review this resource! Download (208.15 KB) -
Advocacy in Action: A toolkit to support NGOs and CBOs responding to HIV/AIDS This toolkit is a guide to facilitating a workshop for planning an advocacy effort. Section 2.8 of the toolkit (pp. 56-60) presents step-by-step instructions to selecting and monitoring indicators, and performing an evaluation. Author: International HIV/AIDS Alliance Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Download (2.01 MB) -
Advocacy Toolkit: Practical action in advocacy (Section C5, Evaluation) Part of Tearfund’s "Advocacy Toolkit" (Section C5) addresses advocacy evaluation. The section speaks generally about evaluation, differentiates between evaluation and monitoring, and proceeds to examine advocacy evaluation. The section also offers a tool for evaluating advocacy programs. Author: Tearfund Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2002
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Advocating for Adolescent Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa The publication provides information and tips for conducting a reproductive health advocacy effort in sub-Saharan Africa. The final chapter, Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy Efforts, describes three types of evaluations an advocate may want to consider conducting: a process evaluation, an outcome evaluation, and an impact evaluation. The publication includes sample evaluation questions to ask as part of each evaluation. The chapter also includes a section about using evaluation results. Author: Shannon, Adam Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 1998 Be the first to review this resource! Download (476.47 KB) -
AEA Paper: "Accountability and the No Child Left Behind Act: Implications for Public Policy" Cindy Roper of Clemson University delivered this paper (and a presentation of the same title) at the 2008 American Evaluation Association conference. Roper examined accountability measures for a policy initiative (in this case, the No Child Left Behind act) through the lens of organizational theory. Author: Roper, Cindy Type: Research & Reports Date: Nov 8, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Download (54.08 KB) -
AEA Presentation: "Accountability and the No Child Left Behind Act: Implications for Public Policy" Cindy Roper of Clemson University delivered the following slides (and a paper of the same title) at the 2008 American Evaluation Association conference. Roper examined accountability measures for a policy initiative (in this case, the No Child Left Behind act) through the lens of organizational theory. Author: Roper, Cindy Type: Presentation Slides Date: Nov 8, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Download (44.7 KB) -
Blog: "Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS" Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS is a frequently-updated blog / news website managed by Rick Davies in the UK. The site focuses on M&E methods for aid / development programs, and includes news, opinion, jobs, and events.
Author: Davies, Rick Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 1997 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Building Government Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Systems The Independent Evaluation Group ("IEG") of the World Bank offers this collection of monitoring and evaluation ("M&E") resources. Primarily geared for evaluation specialists building M&E systems for governments, this collection includes a wealth of tools, methodologies, guides, and case studies. Author: Independent Evaluation Group Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 18, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Candidate Outcome Indicators: Advocacy Program This publication, based on joint research by the Urban Institute and The Center for What Works, provides a framework for tracking nonprofit performance. It suggests candidate outcomes and outcome indicators to assist nonprofit organizations that seek to develop new outcome monitoring processes or improve their existing systems. Author: Urban Institute and The Center for What Works Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: Jan 1, 2007
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Community Resource Institute Tutorials A collection of the following community empowerment tutorials:1. Using Data to Support Grant Applications and Other Funding Opportunities
2. Monitoring Trends and Identifying Emerging Problems
3. Using Data to Disseminate Information to Engage Community and Policymakers
4. Using Data to Evaluate Progress in Meeting Goals
5. Using Data to Establish Priorities and Plan ProgramsAuthor: Community Resource Institute Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2010 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Designing a Results Framework for Achieving Results: A How-To Guide A results framework serves as a key tool in the development landscape, enabling practitioners to discuss and establish strategic development objectives and then link interventions to intermediate outcomes and results that directly relate to those objectives. This publication provides how-to guidance for developing results frameworks by discussing the following: Author: Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Sep 1, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (834.16 KB) -
Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Process for Capacity Building and Empowerment Can participation and empowerment in M&E be a reality in large scale projects and programmes? How can qualitative change be assessed in a participatory and empowering way which is also reliable and credible? This paper uses INTRAC's Central Asia programme (building NGO capacity in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) as a case study. Author: International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) Type: Research & Reports Date: Nov 6, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Download (102.5 KB) -
Evaluation of Nine Non-Governmental Human Rights Organisations This evaluation report examines nine organizations working in the international human rights field with support from the Dutch government. It is one sub-study of a larger evaluation of Dutch human rights policy. The sub-study used a custom evaluation framework, consisting of a general section and sections on international advocacy work, publications and information, and specific program activities. The report concludes that all nine organizations have been largely successful, but that there is still room for improvement, "especially in the field of monitoring and evaluation practice Author: Landman, Todd and Abraham, Meghna Type: Research & Reports Date: Feb 1, 2004 Be the first to review this resource! Download (666.96 KB) -
First Steps in Monitering and Evaluation Page features a variety of documents on monitoring and evaluation, primarily targeting charitable organizations. Author: Charities Evaluations Services Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jun 14, 2010
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From the War on Poverty to an Economy that Works for All This publication about the effort to reframe the "war on poverty" to "low wage work" offers an example of an advocacy campaign that monitored and evaluated its own activities. One of the lessons learned from the advocacy effort specifically is in regard to monitoring and evaluating: "Advocates and activists must be flexible and open-minded about evaluating the degree to which an approach is working or not working, if any change is to be made." Author: Shulman, Sarah Type: Research & Reports Date: Mar 1, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Download (543.15 KB) -
Global Program Advocacy Grants: What Do They Tell Us About Evaluating Advocacy? Oxfam America (OA) funds a number of grants that explicitly aim to carry out advocacy work. Looking at thirty grant proposals (ten each from Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America), the author explores the variety of advocacy targets, tactics, expected outcomes, and proposed monitoring and evaluation methodologies. The report concludes with four broad implications about institutional vs. individual impact, diversity of strategies, classification of outcomes, and capacity issues. Author: Ng, Sandra N.W. Type: Research & Reports Date: Oct 1, 2000 Be the first to review this resource! Download (314.91 KB) -
Guidance for designing, monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding projects using theories of change Achieving peace is a lengthy, complex process that involves many actors and interventions, some of whom work toward peace, while others promote the continuation of conflict. Conventional development models do not typically contemplate working with stakeholders for whom recourse to violence is the norm. Opportunities for peacebuilding evolve with shifting conflict dynamics. In peacebuilding, one step forward is often followed by steps backward. This guide seeks to help practitioners address these challenges.
Author: Heidi Ober, Carlisle Levine, Cheyanne Church Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jun 2, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (550.2 KB) -
Guidance Note #2: Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation This is the second guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. This second guidance note, Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation, illustrates the relationship between routine M&E and impact evaluation – in particular, how both monitoring and evaluation activities can support meaningful and valid impact evaluation.
Author: Burt Perrin Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Apr 16, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.24 MB) -
Guidance Note #3: Introduction to Mixed Methods in Impact Evaluation Mixed methods (MM) evaluations seek to integrate social science disciplines with predominantly quantitative (QUANT) and predominantly qualitative (QUAL) approaches to theory, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. The purpose is to strengthen the reliability of data, validity of the findings and recommendations, and to broaden and deepen our understanding of the processes through which program outcomes and impacts are achieved, and how these are affected by the context within which the program is implemented.
Author: Michael Bamberger Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Sep 5, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Guidance Note #4: Use of Impact Evaluation Results This is the fourth guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This fourth guidance note, Use of Impact Evaluation Results, highlights three themes crucial for effective utilization of evaluation results.
Author: David Bonbright Type: Research & Reports Date: Nov 7, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.84 MB) -
Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating policy influence Author: Harry Jones Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Feb 23, 2011 Be the first to review this resource! Download (171.99 KB) -
How to Design a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for a Policy Research Project This guidance note focuses on the designing and structuring of a monitoring and evaluation framework for policy research projects and programmes.
The primiary audience for this guidance note is people designing and managing monitoring and evaluation. However, it will be a useful tool for anyone involved in monitoring and evaluation activities.
The framework presented in this guidance note is intended to be used in a flexible manner depending on the purpose and characteristics of the research project.
Author: Methods Lab Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 2016 Be the first to review this resource! Download (346.06 KB)