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Evaluators Clare Nolan and Fontane Lo give a short introduction to Real-Time Evaluation (RTE) from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Additional issues covered in this article include:

• How is RTE different from traditional evaluation?
• Is a real-time evaluation right for me?
• What if my funder wants a traditional evaluation?

Sinopsis

Este documento presenta un resumen de la guía de CRS para formular marcos lógicos y de resultados.

• Un marco lógico “es una forma sistemática y visual de presentar y compartir su visión de las relaciones entre los recursos con los que usted cuenta para operativizar su programa, las actividades que usted planifica y los cambios o resultados que espera alcanzar.”1 El proframe de CRS y el marco lógico del Departamento de Desarrollo Internacional del Reino Unido (DFID) son ejemplos de marcos lógicos.

This is the first guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This first guidance note, Introduction to Impact Evaluation, provides an overview of impact evaluation, explaining how impact evaluation differs from – and complements – other types of evaluation, why impact evaluation should be done, when and by whom.

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.

R is hotter than ever in the evaluation field as evaluators are looking for ways to improve their data management, analysis, and visualizations. First-time R users are asking themselves, Is R right for my evaluation work? Where do I start if I want to learn R? How long will it take to learn R? Evaluators without programming experience are often frustrated by R's steep learning curve. These novice R users are left wondering, How can I climb the R learning curve without falling off the cliff?

This Guide was prepared to assist evaluators faced with the task of preparing evaluation reports. A focus is brought to:

1) identifying what CIDA expects from evaluation reports,

2) instilling a results–based approach to their preparation, and

3) enhancing the value–added of the final product.

Civil society has now rallied around a new Immunization Advocacy Goals framework, presenting a menu of advocacy options to improve access to vaccines around the world.

The framework’s five goals unite civil society – from implementers in Afghanistan, to research and development advocates in Australia – under shared goals that provide an intellectual underpinning for local, regional, and global advocacy on immunizations.

This publication, Integrating Evaluative Capacity into Organizational Practice, was developed in response to the continuing need expressed by nonprofit trainees to further assess and operationalize evaluative thinking. It extends information first provided in 2006 in a series of short, electronic articles called Evaluative Thinking Bulletins. The guidebook is intended to
answer the following questions: