Présentation
VNRs & Country-led Evaluations – how they work together
This presentation illustrates four pathways how Country-led Evaluations can inform the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). The presentation also...
Topics: Processus d'évaluation
Document d’orientation
From what works to what will work. Integrating climate risks into sustainable development evaluation - a practical guide
Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, methods and approaches for evaluating sustainable development interventions...
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Systems Mapping How to build and use causal models of systems
This book explores a range of new and older systems mapping methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a practical manner, it...
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Theory of Change Thinking in practice
Hivos values working with Theory of Change (ToC) as an appropriate approach to guide its strategic thinking and action, as well as its collaborative...
Document technique
Where Politics and Evaluation Research Meet
Weiss demonstrates in her article how the rational of conducting an evaluation takes place in a political context, and hence evaluators should...
Document technique
The unfinished evidence revolution: riding the five waves
This paper of CEDIL examines the current state of each of the waves (outcome monitoring, impact evaluation, systematic reviews and knowledge brokering...
Document technique
Representing Theories of Change: Technical Challenges with Evaluation Consequences
This paper of CEDIL looks at the technical issues associated with the representation of Theories of Change and the implications of design choices for...
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Mixing and Matching: Using Qualitative Methods to Improve Quantitative Impact Evaluations (IEs) and Systematic Reviews (SRs) of Development Outcomes
This paper by CEDIL includes the use of innovative techniques to form the specific evaluative questions being asked and tested, to gather the right...
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Using data differently and using different data
The lack of adequate measures to capture relevant factors, and the prevalence of measurement error in existing ones, often constitute the main...
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Explaining what works: using causal chain analysis in systematic reviews
Systematic reviews summarise and synthesise the global evidence about an intervention. By incorporating causal chain analysis, a systematic review...
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Using mid-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design
This brief takes a practical, how-to approach in outlining ten steps for building a middle-level theory of change.
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Evaluating complex interventions: What are appropriate methods?
In the CEDIL Methods brief, ‘Evaluating complex interventions: What are appropriate methods?’ we identify four types of complex development...
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When time is of the essence: Timely evaluations in international development
Timely evaluations produce results when they are needed to inform decision making while using appropriate, rigorous designs. While traditionally...
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Compendium of Evaluation Methods Reviewed (Volume 1)
Choosing appropriate approaches and methods are pre-requisites for credible, independent and useful evaluation exercises in the United Nations. The...
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Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods, and Practice
Impact evaluations are studies that attempt to measure the causal impact of a project, program or policy on one or more outcomes of. This book...
Blog
Neutrality, impartiality, independence: reflections on a recent discussion
Posté le 28/02/2022 by Malika Bounfour I recently raised a topic for discussion, asking EvalForward members how they practised and experienced evaluator neutrality, impartiality and...
Document technique
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners
In this paper, fourteen leading evaluation practitioners were asked to reflect on lessons from the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for...
Blog
The proof of the pudding is in the eating: five lessons for developing national evaluation capacity
Posté le 31/01/2022 by Miguel Angel Lombardo Chico, Emmanuel M. DAVID-GNAHOUI Countries’ capacity to evaluate development programmes is key to supporting the real ownership of development outcomes and to strengthening the role...
Discussion
Neutrality-impartiality-independence. At which stage of the evaluation is each concept important?
Posté le 28/01/2022 by Malika Bounfour Dear members, I believe that if the purpose of evaluation is to generate programme correction, learning and change, there needs to be independence...
Blog
SDG evaluations: How to eat an elephant
Posté le 20/12/2021 by Olivier Cossée Hi everyone! The FAO Office of Evaluation is currently assessing the Organization’s contribution to certain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
Ouvrage
ÉVALUATION. Fondements, controverses, perspectives
Sous la direction de Thomas Delahais, Agathe Devaux-Spatarakis, Anne Revillard et Valéry Ridde, cet ouvrage en accès ouvert entend favoriser les...