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An organisational assessment is a systematic process for obtaining valid information about the performance of an organisation and the factors that affect performance. It differs from other types of evaluations because the assessment focuses on […]
Evaluating the impacts of programmes and policies on children presents particular challenges. Many of these are complex and intersectoral, the impacts are often long-term, and children have particular vulnerabilities to harm. This page provides some […]
Like other sectors such as health, education or public security for example, the agricultural sector and the activities carried out in its delivery, has its own characteristics and peculiarities. From its infancy around ten thousand […]
Gender analysis offers a framework to systematically assess the impact of program and project activities on relations between women and men. What is considered is how the different roles and status of women and men […]
An impact evaluation provides information about the impacts produced by an intervention – positive and negative, intended and unintended, direct and indirect. This means that an impact evaluation must establish what has been the cause of observed changes […]
A network evaluation may consider a range of questions and adopt a variety of options for undertaking the evaluation depending on factors such as the type, size, stage of development and purpose of the network. […]
1. What is SEIE? Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation (SEIE) refers to an evaluation that focuses on impacts some time after the end of an intervention (which might be a project, policy or group of projects […]
Synonyms: QUIP The QUIP sets out to generate differentiated evidence of impact based on narrative causal statements elicited directly from intended project beneficiaries without use of a control group. Evidence of attribution is sought through […]
Synonyms: Use-focused evaluation, Utilisation Focused Evaluation, Utilization Focused Evaluation Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE), developed by Michael Quinn Patton, is an approach based on the principle that an evaluation should be judged on its usefulness to its […]
Realist evaluation is a form of theory-driven evaluation, but is set apart by its explicit philosophical underpinnings. Pawson and Tilley (1997) developed the first realist evaluation approach, although other interpretations have been developed since. Pawson […]
Synonyms: Clinical Trial, Randomised Controlled Trial, Randomized Impact Evaluations Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), or randomized impact evaluations, are a type of impact evaluation which uses randomized access to social programs as a means of limiting […]
Positive Deviance (PD) refers to a behavioral and social change approach which is premised on the observation that in any context, certain individuals confronting similar challenges, constraints, and resource deprivations to their peers, will nonetheless […]