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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...

While “systemic thinking” is popular in the context of capacity development and evaluation, there is currently a lack of understanding about the benefits to employing systems theory in evaluation capacity development. Systems theory provides a useful...

Impacts of climate shocks risk undermining or even reversing sustainable development progress both locally and globally. Solutions that work now may not be suitable for the future: there is an urgent need for countries and the international community...

This glossary developed by the African Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank provides translation of all evaluation technical terms between English, French and Arabic, based on the OECD-DAC Network on Development Evaluation originally...

A series of brochures on the OECD/DAC Criteria has been developed by the Asia Pacific Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation under the guidance of Engaging parliamentarians for demand and use of evaluation of Asia Pacific Regional Evaluation Strategy...

This guide provides an overview of the use of both traditional and novel data sources in generating poverty maps and the related methodological implications. It includes both traditional and new methods and data sources in generating poverty maps...

This EVALSDGs Evaluation Insight focuses on the need to mainstream environmental sustainability in the evaluation of all interventions, even when environmental sustainability is not a stated goal. It shows that for the most part, this is not...

While over time theories of change have become synonymous with simple if/then statements, a strong theory of change should actually be a much more detailed, context-specific articulation of how we *theorize* change will happen under a program...

CEDIL's working paper demonstrates that measurement is crucial to evaluation. Without appropriate measures, we cannot assess the effectiveness of policy. In this latest CEDIL Methods Working Paper, the authors address several conceptual issues linked...

This guideline of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) of South Africa provides guidance to evaluators and commissioners of evaluation on how to apply an equity criterion in evaluation.