Topics: Evaluation methods

This presentation illustrates four pathways how Country-led Evaluations can inform the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). The presentation also...

Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, methods and approaches for evaluating sustainable development interventions...

This book explores a range of new and older systems mapping methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a practical manner, it...

Hivos values working with Theory of Change (ToC) as an appropriate approach to guide its strategic thinking and action, as well as its collaborative...

This paper of CEDIL examines the current state of each of the waves (outcome monitoring, impact evaluation, systematic reviews and knowledge brokering...

This paper of CEDIL looks at the technical issues associated with the representation of Theories of Change and the implications of design choices for...

This paper by CEDIL includes the use of innovative techniques to form the specific evaluative questions being asked and tested, to gather the right...

The lack of adequate measures to capture relevant factors, and the prevalence of measurement error in existing ones, often constitute the main...

Systematic reviews summarise and synthesise the global evidence about an intervention. By incorporating causal chain analysis, a systematic review...

This brief takes a practical, how-to approach in outlining ten steps for building a middle-level theory of change.

In the CEDIL Methods brief, ‘Evaluating complex interventions: What are appropriate methods?’ we identify four types of complex development...

Timely evaluations produce results when they are needed to inform decision making while using appropriate, rigorous designs. While traditionally...

Choosing appropriate approaches and methods are pre-requisites for credible, independent and useful evaluation exercises in the United Nations. The...

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...

This SenseMaker Practitioner Guide is for those who wish to use SenseMaker to conduct assessments, monitor progress, and undertake evaluations or...

Science-Metrix developed this technical note to provide recommendations on the use of bibliometrics in mixed-methods evaluations and monitoring of...

This paper was prepared by the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank for international development specialists, with both evaluation...

In this paper, fourteen leading evaluation practitioners were asked to reflect on lessons from the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for...

This briefing note summarizes the outcomes of the post-COP26 dialogue: The role of evaluation for climate action. A post-COP26 dialogue on how...