Facilitator’s guidebook The Facilitator’s Guide for Participatory Evaluation with Young People supplements the workbook, Participatory Evaluation with Young People. Because young people are often unaware of evaluation as a process in which they can and should participate, this guide is especially important. Some subtopics include: Training of trainers; evaluation roles of young people; essential elements
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Developing capacities for country M&E systems, UNICEF webinar series UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo, in partnership with UNDP, WFP, UNIFEM and ILO presented a series of webinars on “Developing capacities for country M&E systems”. Authors of the published book on this subject (available at http://www.mymande.org/?q=virtual ) presented their chapter contributions and responded to questions. Dates of
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OECD_Eval Tipsheet While not all Network member evaluation units are mandated to work directly on evaluation capacity in partner countries, all have committed to the principles of harmonisation, alignment and the use of country systems. At a minimum, this means donors should consider how their own evaluation work can strengthen rather than undermine evaluation capacity
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Capacity Development in Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation: Results of an Evaluation This paper describes the evaluation of a regional, multiple-site capacity-development project, undertaken to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation in the field of agricultural research. It briefly discusses some of the challenges facing capacity development and its evaluation, the conceptual frameworks and methods adopted, and
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Framework for developing an effective ME system in the public sector The author presents a framework that identifies four broad building blocks needed for an effective M&E system: (i) vision; (ii) an enabling environment; (iii) the infrastructure to supply M&E information; and, (iv) the infrastructure to demand and use M&E information. A set of twelve
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A Diagnostic Guide and Action Framework_WB 1999 This Guide is intended to assist those governments and development agencies which have decided to develop a national or sectoral evaluation system. The Guide provides a detailed checklist of issues to be considered in developing a country’s evaluation capacity. While the Guide is intended to be as comprehensive
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Innovation Network ECB Three case studies share Innovation Network’s experiences with funder initiatives to strengthen grantee evaluation capacity and practice. Each case study includes a description of the overall grantmaking initiative, followed by a discussion of the ECB services requested by grantees and/or provided by Innovation Network. The paper concludes with a reflection on lessons
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Donor Support of ECD Report for DAC/WP-EV Workshop “Development partners in evaluation learning and accountability”, Paris, 25-26 March, 2003 In recent years, the issues on donor support for ECD in recipient-countries have attracted a great deal of attention. However, most of the reports were made from a donor perspective and could hardly reflect the experiences
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ECDG Toolkit The philosophy of evaluation capacity behind this 2005 publication is that before training individuals, decisions must be made as to who should be trained and what they should learn. Those decisions evolve from a closer examination of evaluation’s place within the infrastructure of the organization. The Toolkit consists of distinct tools that flow
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