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Guidance Document

MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE

Issued on 2017

The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It involves the collection and selection of stories of change, produced by programme or project stakeholders. MSC can be used in projects and programmes...

Guidance Document

Outcome Mapping

Issued on 2017 by Intrac

Outcome Mapping focuses on changes in the behaviour of the people, groups and organisations influenced by a programme. Like the logical framework, it is a planning methodology that has implications for how monitoring and evaluation is conducted...

Evaluation methods

Guidance Document

PROCESS TRACING

Issued on 2017 by Intrac

Process tracing is a qualitative analysis methodology. The main purpose of process tracing is to establish whether, and how, a potential cause or causes influenced a specified change or set of changes. This is done by applying formal tests to examine...

Guidance Document

QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (QCA)

Issued by Intrac

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a methodology that enables the analysis of multiple cases in complex situations. It can help explain why change happens in some cases but not others. QCA is designed for use with an intermediate number of...

Guidance Document

CONTRIBUTION ANALYSIS

Issued on 2017 by Intrac

Contribution analysis is a methodology used to identify the contribution a development intervention has made to a change or set of changes. The aim is to produce a credible, evidence-based narrative of contribution that a reasonable person would be...

Evaluation Synthesis

EVALUATION OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC CO-BENEFITS OF GEF FUNDED INTERVENTIONS

Issued on 2025 by GEF-IEO

The term co-benefits refers to additional positive impacts of a policy or intervention, beyond its primary objectives. In the case of natural resource protection and climate change adaptation, co-benefits can include improved incomes, livelihoods...

Evaluation Synthesis

EVALUATION OF THE GEF SUPPORT FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS

Issued on 2025 by GEF-IEO

Nature-based solutions (NbS)1 represent an overarching concept that provides approaches to simultaneously tackle the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change while offering social and economic co-benefits (table 1). These...

Evaluation Brief

EVALUATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WATERS FOCAL AREA

Issued on 2025 by GEF-IEO

The evaluation portfolio includes 277 projects (i.e., 44 closed, 153 ongoing, 80 at CEO endorsement stage) from GEF-5 to GEF-8, covering more than 140 countries. The total GEF funding for these projects was over $1.7 billion, with expected...

Briefing note

Methodological Briefs on Evidence Synthesis Series of 8 briefs

Issued on 2020 by UNICEF-INNOCENTI

This series of eight briefs, produced by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, is intended to provide guidance on how to undertake, commission and manage evidence synthesis products such as systematic reviews, rapid evidence assessments and...

University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing

Book

A Field Guide to Ripple Effects Mapping

Issued on 2017 by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing

The second volume in the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute Program Evaluation Series focuses on the emerging evaluation technique of Ripple Effects Mapping (REM). This participatory data collection method is designed to capture the impact of...

Book

The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems

Issued on 2025 by FAO

Synopsis (short abstract)Young people stand at the heart of a rapidly changing world. They have the vision, energy and entrepreneurial spirit to find new and innovative ways to cultivate, create, package and transport the food we all need. If...

Guidance Document

Social Network Analysis For The Evaluation Of Development Interventions: A Methods Note

Issued on 2024 by CGIAR IAES

This methods note introduces Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a valuable tool for evaluating development interventions, particularly in research-for-development (R4D). It defines SNA, explores its applications in the social sciences, and outlines key...

Guidance Document

GLOBAL EVALUATION AGENDA 2.0 EVALAGENDA FOR FUTURE-FIT EVALUATION

Issued on 2025 by EvalPartners

Global Evaluation Agenda (GEA) 2.0 is a visionary articulation of the contribution evaluation can make to people, planet, prosperity, and peace. The Global Evaluation Agenda (GEA) 2.0 EvalAgenda is a visionary and comprehensive framework designed to...

Evaluation Synthesis

Summary of Learning on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessments (MELIA): Knowledge Product

Issued on 2025 by CGIAR IAES

The continuum of Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Impact Assessment (MELIA) is essential to the effective delivery of CGIAR’s Research Portfolio. To support the ambitions of the CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy and the CGIAR...