Qualitative Evaluation Checklist
The purposes of this checklist are to guide evaluators in determining when qualitative methods are appropriate for an evaluative inquiry and factors to consider (1) to select qualitative approaches that are particularly appropriate for a given evaluation’s expected uses and answer the evaluation’s questions,...
Conducting a Conflict Assessment: A Framework for Strategy and Program Development
The preceding section lays out five broad areas that the assessment team needs to consider: Incentives for violence Access to conflict resources Institutional and social capacity for managing violence Regional dynamics Windows of opportunity and vulnerability
Guidelines and Checklist for Constructivist (a.k.a. Fourth Generation) Evaluation
Constructivist evaluation is that form of evaluation based on the propositions (basic assumptions) undergirding the constructivist paradigm. The constructivist paradigm differs from other knowledge paradigms commonly in use, including the scientific, the artistic, the religious, the legal, and others of similar broad sweep. It is...
CIPP Evaluation Model Checklist
The concept of evaluation underlying the CIPP Model and this checklist is that evaluations should assess and report an entity’s merit (i.e., its quality), worth (in meeting needs of targeted beneficiaries), probity (its integrity, honesty, and freedom from graft, fraud, and abuse), and significance...
M&E Fundamentals: A Self-Guided Minicourse
2. The five key components of logic models are: Inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, impacts Conceptual, results, logical, logframe, logic Conceptual, indicators, outputs, outcomes, impacts Indicators, inputs, processes, outputs, results
Making Evaluation Relevant to All Education Stakeholders
This checklist was developed to aid evaluators in making evaluation more meaningful to the diverse makeup of education stakeholders in the current marketplace. With education reform in the forefront and accountability a key issue, community involvement in education has greatly evolved in the past few...
Evaluation Report Checklist
The Evaluation Report Checklist has two intended applications that are related to evaluation management: (1) a tool to guide a discussion between evaluators and their clients regarding the preferred contents of evaluation reports and (2) a tool to provide formative feedback to...
Guidance on Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities
Emerging lessons from the analytical work underpinning this guidance The joint process of developing this guidance has begun to reveal some important lessons for donor agencies and others working in the conflict prevention and peacebuilding field. The following list of emerging lessons...
Evaluation Design Checklist
The logical structure of evaluation design includes elements that commonly apply to a wide range of evaluation assignments and alternative evaluation approaches. This checklist is intended as a generic guide to decisions one typically needs to at least consider when planning and conducting an...
Evaluation Contracts Checklist
This checklist designed to help evaluators and clients to identify key contractual issues and make and record their agreements for conducting an evaluation. Advance agreements on these matters can mean the difference between an evaluation's success and failure. Without such agreements the evaluation process is...
Managing for Development Results
In a time of global economic downturn, governments are increasingly looking for ways to ensure that their resources are used effectively. Managing for Development Results (MfDR) has emerged as a centrepiece of global efforts to improve the effectiveness of public resources and achieve the Millennium Development...
A Checklist for Developing and Evaluating Evaluation Budgets
This checklist is designed to assist evaluators and others think through the many issues that should be considered when developing an evaluation budget. This instrument is divided into several categories of typical cost items for conducting evaluations, and questions or statements are used as...