Tools & Templates

Stakeholder analysis is a process of systematically gathering and analyzing qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account when developing and/or implementing a policy or program.  Stakeholder analysis yields useful and accurate information about those persons and organizations that have an interest in your policy or program....

Dear Colleagues/Experts,       The International Peace and Development Training Center (IPDTC) is inviting expert professionals, policy makers and practitioners for its upcoming Autumn Programs. The programmes are designed for UN agencies, governments and national and international organisations....

Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool (DSART), by the RAND Corporation, consists of six assessments to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the state of a country’s defense sector, its institutions and processes, and its capacity to carry out operations for counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, counternarcotics, border and maritime security, counterpiracy, and postconflict stabilization. ...

Approved at the UNEG AGM 2010, this quality checklist for evaluation Terms of Reference and Inception Reports serves as a guideline for UNEG members in the design and conduct of evaluations. Based on UNEG norms and standards for evaluation, this checklist includes critical indicators for a high-quality evaluation terms of reference and inception report.  ...

This document walks through exercises to reflect on thought processes around ambiguity, turbulent environments, and adaptive strategies. ...

This chapter explains what conflict analysis is and why it matters, and how to undertake an analysis.  ...

This paper examines the underlying principles and basic methods of assessing impact of development projects. It is often referred to in other texts on the site as the "Core Text". Many of the methods and techniques outlined in this text are examined in more detail in the Toolbox; they are also shown in application to Enterprise Development activities in the Application Guidance Notes and the Case Studies....

This Guide describes the steps that are taken to initiate an evaluation after management makes the decision to proceed. First, terms of reference (TORs) are prepared by CIDA’s evaluation manager and then an evaluator is selected. ...

This publication, Guidelines for Evaluators, is the first in the companion series to the Handbook on monitoring and Evaluating for Results. The Handbook provides an overall context for results-based monitoring and evaluation and reviews tools and techniques for planning and managing monitoring and evaluation activities....

The primary purpose of this manual is to help communities improve the quality of their programs aimed at preventing or reducing drug use among youth. Funders are increasingly mandating “accountability” for the public or private funds they provide by demanding high-quality outcome data to determine the success of programs....

Do you know if your organization is performing efficiently? If it isn't, do you know why? This guidebook presents an innovative and thoroughly tested model for organizational self-assessment. The tools and tips in Enhancing Organizational Performance go beyond measuring the impact of programs, products, and services....

What are the criteria of merit for an evaluation in any field, including program evaluation? That's probably the most important question to which a professional meta-evaluator--someone who is evaluating an evaluation--and perhaps even every evaluator, needs an answer in order to operate professionally, although the answer may be implicit their practice rather than an explicit part of it.  ...

This guide is provides a basic foundation on how to make evaluations matter. It brings together existing concepts, evaluation methods and tools that have been found to work well in the field in a way that is straightforward and easy to follow....

This one-page document gives a high-level overview of what we have found most successful in our programs.   ...

We need good theories of social change for building the thinking of all involved in processes of development, as individuals, as communities, organisations, social movements and donors. The conventional division in the world today between policy-makers (and their theorising) and practitioners is deeply dysfunctional, leaving the former ungrounded and the latter unthinking. Good concepts help us to grasp what is really happening beneath the surface....

This document aims to be a guide to help to direct the design of a Theory of Change applied to social change processes. However, it is an initial approach that must be furthered based on new experiences and practical applications. ...

Change in the lives of people, in communities and societies is often a complex process. Its course and outcomes depend on many different forces and actors in the context who are pushing for changes in different directions....

These gender guidelines for peace-building are intended to act as a reference guide to assist AusAID desk officers and post officers, as well as contractors and consultants, to understand and address issues of gender equality in peace-building work....

GENDER ANALYSIS is a tool for examining the differences between the roles that women and men play, the different levels of power they hold, their differing needs, constraints and opportunities, and the impact of these differences on their lives. ...

This Guide explains why gender-sensitive indicators are useful tools for measuring the results of CIDA's development initiatives. It concentrates in particular on projects with an end-user focus, and shows how gender-sensitive indicators can and should be used in both gender integrated and WID-specific projects, and in combination with other evaluation techniques. ...