Resources

This resource pack aims to strengthen frontline learning by introducing ‘action learning’ as a straightforward approach to sharing knowledge and solving problems in fast-paced environments. The pack is for programme staff who are implementing...

This handbook, assembled by Mosaic & ZENDialogue, address how Results-Based Management (RBM) can be used to focus on achieving outcomes, implementing performance measurement, learning, and adapting, as well as reporting performance. RBM influences...

This resource of the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank focuses on the use of traditional and new methods and data sources in generating poverty maps, which are an increasingly useful tool for evaluation. Using new sources of relevant...

This policy brief documents experiences of evidence use in policies and programmes. The brief explores how relationships between knowledge producers and users build, maintain and facilitate evidence use.

Lamia Remaud her paper presents a new system-based approach to designing and evaluating programmes in a way that fully embeds environment and biodiversity issues. It seeks to put nature back at the centre of development work in an effort to encourage...

The Footprint Evaluation Initiative is an international collaboration to support evaluators and evaluation managers to consider environmental sustainability in all evaluations, even when this is not a stated goal of the intervention. Footprint...

This guidance document of UNICEF provides more detailed guidance on the core building blocks of impact evaluation (theory of change, evaluative criteria and evaluative reasoning), different evaluation designs and methods for data collection and...

The review of eight projects highlights some of the methodological issues that are unique to post project (as opposed to end of project) evaluation, and point to the advantages of planning for sustainability measurement from the outset of the project...

This W.K. Kellog Foundation Evaluation Handbook is designed to encourage dialogue about the role evaluation should play at the project level. We encourage you to think differently about evaluation, so that together we can move the discipline from a...

This evaluation guide overviews evaluation process and provides more detail about each stage in the evaluation process. The guide demonstrates how to engage with stakeholders and explains how to develop an evaluation using a logic model, a...

This briefing paper from joint UNICEF-BetterEvaluation and EvalSDGs, helps identifying where innovation might be most needed and develop appropriate strategies to support innovation. It describes a number of innovations to address particular...

In this Research Project Paper, CEDIL argues that practitioners can pursue at least three pathways to social accountability scale: the replication of best practice, through leveraging the countervailing power of resistance, and seeking resonance with...

This Methods Working Paper of CEDIL explains how evaluations can go beyond traditional outcome measurement and explore the underlying drivers of impact and the behaviours of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries.

This study document on the Status of National Evaluation Policies and Systems in the Asia Pacific Region in 2022 is based on a survey carried out by the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association every year. The 2022 survey focuses on dimension of enabling...