EvalForEarth

Guidance Document

Learning Links | resources for monitoring and evaluation practitioners and decision-makers

Issued on 2023 by ALNAP

ALNAP Learning Links is a collection of resources and references which can be used for professional development, background reading and/or as part of academic or training programmes or presentations. Key M&E themes include: An overview of evaluation...

Technical Paper

Mixed methods in monitoring and evaluation of development projects: learning from the experience of practitioners

Issued by Oxfam Novib and Wageningen University & Research

This paper explores the practical implications of using mixed methods for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of international development projects, based on experiences of development researchers and practitioners. It shares lessons and insights that...

Evaluation methods

EvalForward Summary

Disability inclusion in evaluation

Issued on 2023 by EvalForward

Judith Kaitesi Katabarwa raised a discussion on EvalForward to encourage the sharing of experience and practice on disability inclusion in evaluation. This document provides a summary of key points emerged under each of the three questions proposed.

EvalForward Summary

Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?

Issued on 2023 by EvalForward

Harriet Matsaert raised a discussion on EvalForward aimed at sharing experiences and practices in using visual tools in evaluation. This document provides a summary of key points emerged under each of the four questions proposed.

Knowledge management and communication

Guidance Document

Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit

The Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit (MECAT) was developed by MEASURE Evaluation, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, and its Kenya associate award, MEASURE Evaluation PIMA, to conduct a standard...

Monitoring & Evaluation

Guidance Document

UNEG Guidance on Disability Inclusion in Evaluations

The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) provides the foundation for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all pillars of the work of the United Nations. The Strategy consists of a system-wide policy...

Technical Paper

Theory of Change: A short literature review and annotated bibliography

This literature review of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) collates some grey and reviewed literature on the Theory of Change. The document addresses the use of a ToC, and the recommended steps for developing a ToC. In addition, the document...

Theories of Change

Guidance Document

GeneraTOR - Terms of reference generator

Better Evaluation developed 'GeneraTOR, which is a guide to write on the different sections of a Terms of References (ToRs). It is a word document that serves as a template where information can be saved, refined and reviewed. The navigation menu...

Guidance Document

Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness

This FAO (2023) Guidebook presents a flexible approach that can be used in many types of fisheries co-management systems with different contexts and characteristics. The fisheries co-management effectiveness evaluation in the Guidebook is recommended...

Guidance Document

SOWING & HARVESTING Participatory Evaluation Handbook

This handbook for participatory evaluation was put together by EvalParticipativa as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the field of evaluation: in the face of fragility and the limits of self-sufficiency, it intends to foreground the multitude...

Guidance Document

Practical tips for addressing cross-cutting objectives in evaluations

This document from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland presents key considerations during the different phases of the evaluation process provides a list of considerations and options to implement cross cutting objectives.

Evaluation process

Report

A study on the status of M&E practices on SDGs in selected countries in the Asia Pacific Region

This study was initiated by the Using Evaluation to Report on the SDGs Thematic Group primarily to determine the status of M&E practices for SDG implementation among countries in the Asia Pacific Region. Specifically, the study sought to answer the...

Guidance Document

The Rigor of Case-Based Causal Analysis Busting Myths through a Demonstration

This paper of the World Bank Group (2023) busts two myths regarding the use of case-based designs in evaluations that aim to answer effectiveness questions and unpack the relationships between interventions and observed changes in outcomes, broadly...

Book

Return on Knowledge - How international development agencies are collaborating to deliver impact through knowledge, learning, research and evidence

This book of the Multi-Donor Learning Partnership (2022) represents the experience, learning, and opinions of individuals working in the world’s most significant development donors, with the belief that collaboration across our entities can help us...

Resources

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Technical Paper

EvalForward Summary

EvalForward Summary

Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Technical Paper

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Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Report

Guidance Document

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