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Sea Change Community of Practice for Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Interventions

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With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and technical and logistical support from Pact, SEA Change is a maturing virtual Community of Practice (CoP) focused on the monitoring and evaluation of climate change interventions in Southeast Asia, and beyond. Climate change is a real challenge globally and scientists, policy makers, and practitioners across government, private sector and the not-for-profit sectors are struggling to find effective ways to adapt to the increasingly disruptive more...

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John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on April 14, 2012

Sound expectations: from impact evaluations to policy change

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Abstract: This paper outlines a comprehensive and flexible analytical conceptual framework to be used in the production of a case study series. The cases are expected to identify factors that help or hinder rigorous impact evaluations (IEs) from influenc ing policy and improving policy effectiveness. This framework has been developed to be adaptable to the reality of developing countries. It is aimed as an analytical- methodological tool which should more...

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A CAN OF WORMS? IMPLICATIONS OF RIGOROUS IMPACT EVALUATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES

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Abstract: Development agencies are under great pressure to show results and evaluate the impact of projects and programmes. This paper highlights the practical and ethical dilemmas of conducting impact evaluations for NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations). Specifically the paper presents the case of the development organization, International Child Support (ICS). For almost a decade, all of ICS’ projects in West Kenya were evaluated through rigorous, statistically more...

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Handbook on Impact Evaluation - Quantitative Methods and Practices

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Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and Latin America improve health and schooling outcomes for poor women and children? Does a new road more...

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Impact Evaluation - Experience of the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank

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Impact evaluation is an assessment of the impact of an intervention on final welfare outcomes. The results agenda has forced agencies to demonstrate that the money they spend is improving the lives of poor people, thereby increasing demand for impact evaluation. In the current environment, calls for increased aid spending are only credible if it can be shown that current spending is indeed contributing toward the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. Impact evaluation is an essential more...

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Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making

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"Impact evaluation has blossomed in recent years as a powerful tool for enhancing development effectiveness. The numbers of both evaluations and methodologies have multiplied very quickly. This growth, however, has been uneven both geographically and across sectors, leading to questions of how to bolster impact evaluation in regions and sectors where it is least common and perhaps most needed. Additionally, as methods mature and the collection of evidence accumulates, more...

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Impact Evaluation and Development - NONIE Guidance on Impact Evaluation Download location:

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The purpose of NONIE is to promote more and better impact evaluations among its members. Issues relating to evaluations in general are more effectively dealt with in the parent networks, and are thus not the primary focus of NONIE. NONIE will focus on sharing of methods and learning-by-doing to promote the practice of IE (impact evaluation). The current Guidance document was developed for supporting those purposes.The Guidance is structured around nine key issues in impact evaluation:1. more...

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(Worldbank) Impact Evaluation in Practice

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This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally towards development practitioners and policymakers designing prospective impact evaluations, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in using impact evaluation. Prospective impact evaluations should be used selectively to assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results, or to test more...

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Impact Evaluation and Interventions to Address Climate Change: A scoping study

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Abstract: Substantial and increasing amounts of funding are available for climate change interventions. This paper argues that to ensure effective allocation of these resources, the selection and design of climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions should be based on evidence of what works, what doesn’t, under what circumstances and at what cost. Currently the evidence base for bringing about behaviour change in the context of climate change interventions is minimal and there is a more...

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(InterAction) Introduction to Impact Evaluation

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"Credible and appropriate impact evaluation can greatly improve the effectiveness of development. The increasing emphasis on impact evaluation in development has led to many questions. What constitutes credible and appropriate impact evaluation? How should impact evaluations be managed? What measures and data sources are appropriate? How can qualitative and quantitative data be effectively combined in impact evaluation? What should be done to support the appropriate use of impact more...

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10 ways to chart tangible progress in Africa since 2007

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In 2007, at TEDAfrica, Euvin Naidoo gave an opening talk about investing in African countries — laying out 10 markets and metrics to watch as African nations gained capacity.Today, in a follow-up post, investor Ryan Hoover looks at these 10 metrics that Naidoo laid out — and charts how much has changed in the past five years. It’s a fascinating post. A sample:7. Africa’s Booming Banks2007: Naidoo next remarked on the potential of the banking sector and the reforms taking place in Nigeria that more...

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Business Dynamics Statistics Briefing: Entrepreneurship Across States

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"Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)1, permit unprecedented tracking of business dynamics for U.S. firms and establishments. This is one of several briefings to be released over the coming months to highlight some key features of these new data......"While it’s generally accepted that entrepreneurial activity is crucial for innovation and growth, there are currently very few reliable data sources that permit comparison ofdifferent policy more...

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John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on February 20, 2012

A guide to goodness: Values for money

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Want to know if a product is virtuous? There’s an app for that.GoodGuide.com, launched in 2008, is a website and smartphone app that rates 140,000 consumer products (currently only in America) according to their safety, environmental sustainability and the ethics of the firms that make them. Now GoodGuide has created a new “purchase analyser” app designed to inform consumers not just about the values embedded in products, but also about whether they are the virtuous shoppers they say they want more...

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John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on November 22, 2011

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