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Data Ethics Toolkit: A companion to the Data Ethics Guidebook

Oakland, Cal.: Informing Change (2022), 21 pp.
"Ziel dieses Buches ist es, kompakt und nutzerfreundlich Grundkenntnisse für die Planung, Durchführung und Anwendung von Evaluationen zu vermitteln. Hierfür greift es auf die inhaltlichen Konzepte und Unterlagen zahlreicher Kurse zur Evaluation im In- und Ausland zurück. Das Buch richtet sich an ... more

Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage, 5th ed. (2022), xxiv, 406 pp.
"The Fifth Edition of the bestselling 'Utilization-Focused Evaluation' provides expert, detailed advice on conducting evaluations that promote effective use of the findings. Chock full of useful pedagogy, this book presents Michael Quinn Patton's distinctive opinions based on more than forty years o ... more

How to harvest outcomes you notice in your day-to-day work

Manchester: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) (2022), 6 pp.
"In your day to day work you notice changes that others are making, influenced by WIEGO. How do you capture these to support WIEGO’s learning? This tool provides an explanation of what to look for, and a template for documenting outcomes, why they matter (their significance) and how WIEGO or WIEGO ... more

How to write an outcome statement

Manchester: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) (2022), 14 pp.
"In your day to day work you notice changes that others are making, influenced by WIEGO. How do you capture these to support WIEGO’s learning? This tool provides an explanation of what to look for, and a template for documenting outcomes, why they matter (their significance) and how WIEGO or WIEGO ... more
"This book is written to provide detailed, rigorous guidance on how to conduct impact evaluations of government and nongovernment programs and projects. It covers all the leading quantitative impact evaluation methods, explaining the assumptions required for them to provide unbiased estimates and th ... more

Managing Evaluations in the Field: Step-By-Step Planning Guidance. Analysis and Evidence

Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2022), 17 pp.
"This guidance is useful for ICRC teams in the field managing different evaluation types that cover various interventions. Importantly, it is not an evaluation manual. Nor is it the only source to draw on when planning and managing an evaluation. It should be used in conjunction with other ICRC poli ... more

Tools for Designing and Conducting Social and Behavior Change Evaluations

Arlington: USAID Advancing Nutrition (2022), iv, 16 pp.
"Social and behavior change (SBC) is a key component of effective multi-sectoral nutrition activities. High-quality evaluations of SBC components are essential to identifying what went well, what could have been done differently, and how to improve future program design. The tools included here acco ... more

Evaluating Complex Interventions in International Development

London: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), 103 pp.
"The aim of this paper is to provide guidance on the evaluation of complex interventions in international development. Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, unlike other reviews on the same subject, our focus is exclusively directed to evaluations of development interventions. Seco ... more
"This timely and comprehensive textbook covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs, particularly social programs and projects, with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective. It provides students with an equ ... more

Engaging Stakeholders to Co-Design Rigorous and Relevant Research and Evaluation

Oxford; London: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), 14 pp.
"The framework for selecting appropriate methods of stakeholder engagement is presented here as five steps that can help people who are commissioning or conducting research or evaluations to orient themselves to their context, research purposes and, ultimately, options for stakeholder engagement. Th ... more
"The resource provides a guide for the expected costs of various evaluative activities in an Australian context. The main purpose for commissioners of evaluative activity to have a sense of the budget they should set aside for these activities. However, the guide also alerts potential users to the r ... more

Evaluation Management

Bonn: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (2020), 51 pp.

Manuel Gestion de l'Évaluation

Bonn: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (2020), 51 pp.

RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2020), xliv, 524 pp.
"Addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized around the authors’ seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation impl ... more