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This report, “Linking Program Design and Program Evaluation: A Challenging Task,” captures the findings of a meta-review of program evaluation reports conducted by American University’s Center for Peacebuilding and Development and Search for Common Ground....

Evaluation criteria and standards evolve through theory, practice, reflection, discussion, research, and meta-evaluation. This paper strives to identify processes that can be employed to achieve credible and useful evaluation findings about impact. ...

Evaluation criteria and standards evolve through theory, practice, reflection, discussion, research, and meta-evaluation. This paper strives to identify processes that can be employed to achieve credible and useful evaluation findings about relevance.   ...

Sharing Results is Part 10 in a ten part series called How to Preform Evaluations from Canadian International Development Agnecy. This guide looks at sharing results from two perspcetives. ...

This report develops a new model for measuring success by examining both subjective and objective criteria that are clustered around four different dimensions of the conflict concept, and that allows for the positive as well as negative interactions (“loops”) between different dimensions of success. ...

An increasing number of rigorous impact evaluations are being conducted, and it is important that the evaluation methods, findings and recommendations are as reliable as possible. At the same time, however, these evaluations can be expensive to conduct....

The prevention of violent conflicts has become a significant issue with the end of the Cold War and experiences such as the genocide in Rwanda, ethnic wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and state failure in Somalia. The international community has attempted to engage more actively in conflict prevention, or efforts to curtail the spread of violence and find a solution at early stages of conflict....

The Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is a long established activity design methodology used by a range of major multilateral and bilateral donors, including Australia. It is based on a systematic analysis of the development situation, particularly key development problems, and of the options for addressing those problems. ...

Three themes dominate this report: Capacity development needs special attention and focus. It needs practitioners who will think constantly about how best to leave a sustainable institutional legacy. But it loses relevance as an idea when discussed in the abstract....

This paper identifies the existing literature on participatory monitoring and evaluation, with a particular emphasis on gaining wide-ranging beneficiary feedback.  Comment on the coverage, scalability, risks, benefits and applicability. ...

This handbook can stand alone as a guide on how to design andconstruct a results-based M&E system in the public sector. It can alsobe used in conjunction with a workshop developed at the WorldBank entitled “Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoringand Evaluation System: A Tool for Public Sector Management.” Thegoal of the handbook is to help prepare you to plan, design, and implementa results-based M&E system within your organization....

This ‘Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results’is an updated edition of the 2002 edition of ‘Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluatingfor Results’. It seeks to address new directions in planning,monitoring and evaluationin the context of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) corporatestrategic plan, the requirements of the UNDP evaluation policy approved by theExecutive Board in 2006 and the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)‘Standards for Evaluation in the UN System’....

Sida, like many other donor agencies, has decided to use, and to encourageits cooperation partners to use the LFA method, as an instrument toimprove the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of adevelopment intervention. The systematic application of the method,with good judgement and sound common sense, can help to improve thequality, and hence the relevance, feasibility and sustainability of developmentcooperation. ...

The practical guidance in this booklet is designed to help evaluation managers deliver effectve joint evaluations. This is vital at a time in which this international community is prioritising more effective ways of managing aid and emphasing the importance in mutual accountability in demonstrating results. ...

The aim of developing conflict analysis methodologies is to improve the effectiveness of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance in places affected by violent conflicts and insecurity, to provide a better basis for assessing the potential of conflict-sensitive interventions, and to support peace and security....

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) is a method to anticipate, observe, or evaluate the impact of planned, ongoing, or completed interventions in the structures and process that decrease the likelihood of violent conflict and improve the chances for peaceful co-existence. ...