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- EAs examine a project's design, available information, and context to determine if and how an evaluation could be conducted. They help ensure evaluations are useful and feasible.
- Common EA steps include reviewing documentation, engaging stakeholders, and making recommendations about a project's logic, monitoring systems, and potential evaluation approaches.
- Choosing evaluation methods depends on the EA results as well as the evaluation's purpose, required credibility, complexity of the intervention, and available resources. Methods like experiments provide strong evidence of impact but are difficult to implement.
- EAs improve evaluation quality by engaging
Collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data is important for integrating gender in research and policy. It allows researchers to identify quantitative differences between women and men in areas like health status, education levels, employment and income. Without sex-disaggregated data, the unique needs of different gender groups may be overlooked. National and international organizations have recognized the importance of gender indicators and statistics since the 1970s. Proper methods are needed to ensure sex-disaggregated data is collected and analyzed accurately and addresses the experiences of both women and men.
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This document compares and contrasts theories of change and logic models. Theories of change involve critical thinking, show the pathway of change, and are more complicated than logic models as they explain what, how, and why change will happen. Theories of change use a backwards design and participatory process. Logic models are simpler descriptions that show what and how change will happen through a list of components. Logic models use a forwards design and individual process. Both are tools used for program design and evaluation or monitoring.
Impact evaluation is used to determine the effectiveness of programs by examining outcomes and determining if goals were achieved. It typically occurs retrospectively on mature programs and uses approaches like objectives-based, needs-based, or process-outcome evaluations to establish what works and why by measuring outcomes rather than just outputs. The major concerns are determining if the program was implemented as planned and what benefits were achieved for participants.
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This document discusses several common terms used in social work and analyzes them from a human rights perspective. It argues that terms like "client," "intervention," and "supervision" imply a power imbalance that is incompatible with a human rights approach. It also critiques the use of military metaphors in social work and suggests terms like "citizen" or "collaboration" that better respect human rights. Throughout, it emphasizes the importance of respecting the autonomy and participation of those receiving social work services.
With advent of the internet and global connectivity, the way business is done is changing, the way we utilize the people and their potential is changing, the way we interact with people is changing. Nobody is a stranger now and we are connected to one another with the network of networks.
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Rotary Foundation Cadre Training: Monitoring and Evaluation
During this session we will:
*Review importance of monitoring and evaluation
*Share overview of grant model evaluation plan
*Review methodologies used in previous evaluations
*Share plans for future evaluation methodologies
This document outlines the eight stages of policy formulation: 1) identifying the problem, 2) reviewing existing policies, 3) developing alternative solutions, 4) setting goals, 5) building public support, 6) legislating or announcing the policy, 7) implementing the policy, and 8) evaluating the policy. It defines policy as a formal statement by an organization to address issues like poverty or the environment. The stages involve thoroughly understanding the problem, exploring options, gaining support, enacting and enforcing the policy, and assessing its effectiveness.
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The document discusses ETOP (environmental threat and opportunity profile) analysis. ETOP analysis involves monitoring the external environment to identify opportunities and threats affecting a business. It helps organizations formulate strategies by providing information on favorable/unfavorable sectors. The key steps in ETOP analysis are to identify major environmental factors like economic, political, social, technological, competitive, geographical factors. These factors are then analyzed to determine strengths/weaknesses and impact on the organization.
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Program Inception Workshop
July 24-26, 2018 Bangkok, Thailand
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The document provides an overview of monitoring and evaluation methods for programs. It discusses key concepts like monitoring, evaluation, attributes of each, and who conducts them. The five phases of evaluation are outlined: planning, method selection, data collection and analysis, reporting, and implementing recommendations. Specific monitoring and evaluation tools are also described. The overall summary is:
Monitoring and evaluation follow a five phase process including planning, method selection, data collection and analysis, reporting, and implementing recommendations to improve programs. Key concepts like monitoring, evaluation, attributes of each, tools used, and who conducts them are outlined.
This document discusses different types of donors that can provide funding to organizations, including bilateral donors, multilateral donors, individuals, foundations, corporations, and philanthropists. It also separates donors into "governmental" donors like countries, UN agencies, and development banks, and private donors like foundations, NGOs, corporations, and individuals. The document provides guidance on researching donors, including what information to capture about their funding areas, amounts, locations, application processes, and previous relationships. It also discusses using the internet and other resources to develop donor profiles and the limitations of foreign funding.
The document discusses performance measurement for development projects. It includes templates for developing a logframe with objectives, indicators, and activities. It emphasizes that evaluation should be based on data collected through various methods and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Unanticipated events may occur, so evaluation requires critically reflecting on whether reports and analysis fully capture lessons from the data. The quality of data collection and timely reporting are also important.
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This document discusses tools and methodologies for conducting gender planning and analysis in development projects and policies. It outlines frameworks for identifying gender roles and needs, assessing resource allocation and decision making between genders. It also provides checklists for ensuring a gender lens is applied across all stages of project planning, design, implementation and evaluation. The goal is to promote gender equity, empowerment, and address both practical and strategic gender needs and interests.
This document compares and contrasts theories of change and logic models. Theories of change involve critical thinking, show the pathway of change, and are more complicated than logic models as they explain what, how, and why change will happen. Theories of change use a backwards design and participatory process. Logic models are simpler descriptions that show what and how change will happen through a list of components. Logic models use a forwards design and individual process. Both are tools used for program design and evaluation or monitoring.
Impact evaluation is used to determine the effectiveness of programs by examining outcomes and determining if goals were achieved. It typically occurs retrospectively on mature programs and uses approaches like objectives-based, needs-based, or process-outcome evaluations to establish what works and why by measuring outcomes rather than just outputs. The major concerns are determining if the program was implemented as planned and what benefits were achieved for participants.
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This document discusses several common terms used in social work and analyzes them from a human rights perspective. It argues that terms like "client," "intervention," and "supervision" imply a power imbalance that is incompatible with a human rights approach. It also critiques the use of military metaphors in social work and suggests terms like "citizen" or "collaboration" that better respect human rights. Throughout, it emphasizes the importance of respecting the autonomy and participation of those receiving social work services.
With advent of the internet and global connectivity, the way business is done is changing, the way we utilize the people and their potential is changing, the way we interact with people is changing. Nobody is a stranger now and we are connected to one another with the network of networks.
Virtual Communities are interaction platforms for the new age millennials and beyond. The presentation explores different dimensions of establishing and fostering such Communities and the way their potential can be harnessed for the process of co-Creation.
The document discusses experimental research design. It covers key concepts like causality, conditions for causality, validity, and extraneous variables. It also describes different types of experimental designs including pre-experimental, true experimental, quasi-experimental, and statistical designs. Examples are provided to illustrate different designs like randomized block and Latin square designs. Limitations of experimentation are also briefly discussed.
During this session we will:
*Review importance of monitoring and evaluation
*Share overview of grant model evaluation plan
*Review methodologies used in previous evaluations
*Share plans for future evaluation methodologies
This document outlines the eight stages of policy formulation: 1) identifying the problem, 2) reviewing existing policies, 3) developing alternative solutions, 4) setting goals, 5) building public support, 6) legislating or announcing the policy, 7) implementing the policy, and 8) evaluating the policy. It defines policy as a formal statement by an organization to address issues like poverty or the environment. The stages involve thoroughly understanding the problem, exploring options, gaining support, enacting and enforcing the policy, and assessing its effectiveness.
This document discusses gender mainstreaming in organizations, policies, programs and projects. It begins by distinguishing between gender and sex, noting the biological differences but also harmful stereotypes. It then discusses case studies and questions about gifts for a new baby boy and girl that could perpetuate stereotypes. The document outlines why gender mainstreaming is important, noting gender inequalities and disadvantages women face in Pakistan. It provides strategies for making organizations gender responsive, including ensuring gender equity in vision/objectives, policies, practices, and decision-making. It also discusses integrating a gender perspective into situation assessments, goals/objectives, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of projects. The Gender Analysis Matrix tool is introduced to analyze different impacts of projects on women
This document outlines a study on event design and the audience experience. It includes sections on the problem definition, research objectives, scope of the study, methodology, results analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. The study explored the motivations of event attendees, how design elements influence experience, and satisfaction levels. It found that intrinsic motivations like socializing were more important than extrinsic ones. Location/access and entertainment most influenced experience. Respondents rating design elements highly also rated experiences as excellent. The recommendations suggest addressing collective needs to monitor satisfaction and influence decision-making through location, scheduling, and suitable entertainment.
A toolkit for complex interventions and health technologies using normalizati...Normalizationprocess
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The document discusses ETOP (environmental threat and opportunity profile) analysis. ETOP analysis involves monitoring the external environment to identify opportunities and threats affecting a business. It helps organizations formulate strategies by providing information on favorable/unfavorable sectors. The key steps in ETOP analysis are to identify major environmental factors like economic, political, social, technological, competitive, geographical factors. These factors are then analyzed to determine strengths/weaknesses and impact on the organization.
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Program Inception Workshop
July 24-26, 2018 Bangkok, Thailand
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The document discusses what program evaluation is, including defining it as the systematic collection of information about program activities, characteristics, and outcomes to improve effectiveness and inform decision making. It also outlines the types and purposes of evaluation, how to prepare for and conduct an evaluation by developing a logic model and methodology, and important considerations around data collection, analysis, and ethics.
This document provides an overview of monitoring and evaluation concepts, processes, methods, and reporting. It defines key terms like monitoring, evaluation, logical framework, and indicators. It describes monitoring and evaluation cycles and steps in designing an M&E system including developing an M&E matrix. It discusses data collection methods, types of reports, and outlines for technical, popular, monitoring and evaluation reports. The goal is to develop a common understanding of monitoring and evaluation.
This document provides an overview of evaluation, including its benefits, key stages, and approaches. It discusses:
- The purpose of evaluation is to objectively understand the implementation and effects of a policy or intervention.
- Benefits include improving practice, supporting future investment, and providing accountability.
- There are three main types of evaluation: process, impact, and economic. Impact evaluation determines changes caused by the policy.
- Important factors in choosing an evaluation approach include the policy's objectives, timing, expected impacts, and available resources.
- Main stages include defining objectives, identifying questions, selecting the approach, collecting data, and disseminating findings.
Organizational Capacity-Building Series - Session 6: Program EvaluationINGENAES
This document summarizes a presentation on program evaluation for NGO partner organizations. It defines program evaluation as the systematic process of collecting and analyzing information about a program to make necessary decisions. There are two main types of evaluations: process evaluations, which verify proper implementation, and outcome evaluations, which assess a program's effectiveness and impact. The presentation outlines key steps for developing an evaluation plan, including determining the purpose and audience, identifying evaluation questions, choosing a methodology, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting findings. It also discusses important considerations like the appropriate evaluator and presents an activity for participants to develop strategies, outcomes, and discuss an evaluation plan for one of their program objectives.
The document provides guidance on conducting evaluations. It defines evaluation as the assessment of a project's level of achievement and impact. Evaluations are important for accountability, transparency, and learning. They focus on determining what worked and did not work in an intervention. The document outlines the key steps in managing an evaluation including developing an evaluation plan, collecting data, and reporting findings and lessons learned.
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This document summarizes an educational plan evaluation presentation. The presentation defines plan evaluation, discusses the importance of evaluation, and outlines the key elements of an effective evaluation plan and process. This includes engaging stakeholders, describing the program, focusing the evaluation design, gathering credible evidence, justifying conclusions, and ensuring use and sharing lessons learned. It also discusses common issues in program evaluation like lack of funding, planning, readiness, and ineffective approaches. Finally, it identifies the criteria for evaluating educational plans, including relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability.
This document discusses program management and planning processes. It covers situational analysis, priority setting, logical framework analysis, partnerships, adaptation, organizational models, financial stability, impact and scaling. Key aspects include conducting stakeholder analysis and problem tree analysis, ensuring community participation, adapting to lessons learned, and partnerships to improve services, acceptance and sustainability. The goal is to plan impactful projects that can be expanded over time through replication.
Program evaluation is needed to provide policymakers information on program effectiveness and areas for improvement. The roles of a professional evaluator include collecting relevant information, applying standards to make judgments on a program's merit, worth and significance, and communicating evaluation results to stakeholders. Examples of evaluation uses span various sectors such as education, nonprofit, business and industry to improve programs and make decisions about program adoption and continuation.
David Fleming held a seminar on monitoring and evaluation in conflict-affected environments at the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU), University of York.
This document summarizes chapters 1 and 2 of "The 2010 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation" by Joy Frechtling. It discusses the reasons for conducting evaluations, including allowing for improvement and providing unanticipated insights. It outlines two types of evaluations: formative evaluations provide ongoing feedback, while summative evaluations assess the overall success of a completed project. Formative evaluations include implementation evaluations to check that a project is proceeding as planned and progress evaluations to check that goals are being met. The document contrasts program and project evaluations.
Monitoring involves continuous assessment of project implementation to provide feedback and identify successes and problems. It focuses on schedules, inputs, and services. Evaluation assesses outcomes, impacts, effectiveness, and sustainability. The document discusses the importance of monitoring and evaluation for improving decision-making, achieving outcomes, and organizational learning. It provides definitions and comparisons of monitoring and evaluation. Participatory approaches are emphasized to empower stakeholders. Clear objectives and indicators are needed to measure progress.
Measuring Impact - An Engage Workshop on Monitoring & Evaluation Participation Works
Two heads are better than one, and 30 people from 14 different organisations sharing expertise and ideas made the Measuring Impact workshop a truly enlightening event on February 23, 2012.
The Measuring Impact workshop was the first Engage event and was held in Nattional Children’s Bureau (NCB) offices in Belfast.
Find out more:
http://www.participationworks.org.uk/news/engage-workshop-measuring-impact
This document provides guidance on developing an evaluation plan for an AmeriCorps grantee. It explains that an evaluation plan should include: an introduction describing the program and evaluation purpose; a program background with logic model; research questions; evaluation design describing study groups; a data collection section with indicators, tools, and timeline; an analysis plan; and budget. The document reviews key considerations for each section, such as developing process and outcome questions, choosing appropriate design types, and planning data collection and analysis. It emphasizes aligning the evaluation with the program's theory of change and intended uses of the results.
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This document provides guidance on project evaluation. It discusses what project evaluation is, its importance in project design and implementation, additional benefits like project improvement and capacity building. It outlines the planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting process for evaluations. Key steps include examining issues and objectives, establishing a team, identifying the purpose, focusing on improvement, assessing outcomes and impacts, and creating a report to synthesize findings. The goal is to help determine what is and is not working to improve the project.
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Evaluability Assessments and Choice of Evaluation Methods
1. Evaluability Assessments and Choice of
Evaluation Methods
Richard Longhurst, IDS
Discussant: Sarah Mistry, BOND
Centre for Development Impact
Seminar
19th February 2015
2. Introduction and some health warnings
• Some acknowledgements and thanks
• How this work came about: multilateral agency experience as
well as some review of literature
• Evaluability assessments (EAs) are not new, go back 25 years
• Will try to avoid getting bound up in the technical aspects ….
some of this will seem common sense …..but what matters is
trying to make explicit the basis on which decisions are
made… and how they relate to the culture of the organisation
• It is important to make judgements about choice of evaluation
methods (as this is a CDI event) and what drives choices. The
EA literature beginning to enter debate of choice of methods
• In the scope of this seminar, will not be covering every
evaluation method
3. Context of this work with International Programme
for the Elimination of Child labour (ILO-IPEC)
• Large technical cooperation programme (since 1992) largely funded
by US Dept. of Labor
• Causes of child labour are multi-faceted, approaches to eliminate
are equally various
• Main programme tool is Programme of Support to the national
Time Bound Programme to reduce the worst forms of child labour
• TBP involved ‘upstream’ enabling environment and ‘downstream’
action support to reduction of child labour, therefore mix of
interventions
• Also project and global interventions: at its peak IPEC carrying out
25 evaluations per year
• See: Perrin and Wichmand (2011) Evaluating Complex Strategic Interventions: The
Challenge of Child Labour in Forss, Marra and Schwartz (eds), Transaction Publ.
4. Context: IPEC Evaluation approaches and
Information Sources
• National Household Surveys
• Baseline Surveys
• Rapid Assessment Surveys
• Child Labour Monitoring Systems and programme monitoring
• Tracking and Tracer studies
• One on one interviews; Focus groups
• Document Analysis, Observation, Case studies
• Impact and outcome evaluations, expanded final evaluations
• Success case method and most significant change
• Use of SPIF: strategic planning and impact framework
5. Context: My baseline at Commonwealth
Secretariat (1995-2002)
• Starting up an expanded evaluation function
• Conservative, diplomatic based organisation
• An organisation with many small (<£50K) projects
• About 4-5 project evaluations plus one strategic review of the
political function
• Evaluation worked with planning function and reported direct
to CEO with oversight from GB
• Many projects were hard to evaluate because of their design
• Evaluability regarded as achieved through adherence to the 2
year strategic plan
6. Current Use of EAs
• Use of EAs is growing:
• After their popularity in the US in the 1980s, EA guidance has
been developed by ILO, CDA, IDRC, EBRD and UNODC, with
recently DFID, AusAID, UNFPA, WFP, IADB, UNIFEM and HELP
(a German NGO).
• Encouraged by the International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
• Over half of EAs were for individual projects (balance were
country strategies, strategic plans, work plans and
partnerships)
7. Some definitions of EA from multilaterals
• OECD-DAC: ‘the feasibility of an evaluation is assessed … it
should be determined whether or not the development
intervention is adequately defined and its results verifiable,
and if evaluation is the best way to answer questions posed by
policy makers or stakeholders’. (broad)
• Evaluation Cooperation Group of the IFIs: ‘The extent to which
the value generated or the expected results of a project are
verifiable in a reliable and credible fashion’ (narrow but
useful)
• World Bank: ‘A brief preliminary study undertaken to
determine whether an evaluation would be useful and feasible
…. It may also define the purpose of the evaluation and
methods for conducting it’. (says something about methods)
8. Process for EAs (i)
• Common steps include (Davies):
– Identification of project boundaries
– Identification of resources available for EA
– Review of documentation
– Engage with stakeholders, then feedback findings
– Recommendations to cover: project logic and design, M&E
systems, evaluation questions of concern to stakeholders
and possible evaluation designs.
9. Process for EAs (ii) – Incorporating approaches
for methods
• Mapping an analysis of existing information
• Developing the theory of change to identify evaluation
questions noting linkages to changes attributable to
intervention
• Setting out priorities, key assumptions and time frames
• Choosing appropriate methods and tools
• Ensuring resources are available for implementation
• Outline reporting and communicating results of evaluation
10. Issues for an EA
• Review of guidance documents of international
agencies suggest EAs should address three broad
issues:
– Programme design
– Availability of information
– Institutional context (including breadth of stakeholders)
11. EA Tools (i)
• Checklists are normally used: ILO covers five main areas:
– Internal logic and assumptions
– Quality of indicators, Baselines, Targets and Milestones
– Means of verification, measurement and methodologies
– Human and Financial resources, and
– Partners’ Participation and use of information
(and ILO uses a rating system for this).
Don’t knock checklists, there is always a theory of change
embodied in them
An independent consultant is usually employed
12. EA tools (ii) to lead to choice of methods
• EA can be the focus for a modified design workshop that
brings together staff and participants involved in all stages of
the intervention (e.g. use of SPIF)
• Helps develop a stronger theory of change
• Can strengthen monitoring and needs for other information
• Can defuse suspicions about evaluations
• Can be very useful when a Phase I has been completed and a
Phase II has been proposed, building on an evaluation
• Allows ‘lessons learned’ from Phase I to be properly
addressed
13. Experience from using EAs (i)
• Generally EAs have been a good thing:
– Improved usefulness and quality of evaluations: an advance on when
evaluator arrived at the end of the project and finding no means to
evaluate
– Early EAs dependent on logic models and linearity, now some signs
they are being broadened
– An opportunity for an early engagement with stakeholders, i.e. more
participation
– Some evidence of improvements in project outcomes as well as design
– More resources applied up front helps address later problems
14. Experience from using EAs (ii)
• Some of the difficulties:
– Clash of work cultures between design and evaluation professionals –
working to different incentives and time scales
– Issues of how far the evaluation ‘tail’ wags the design ‘dog’, leading to
some ethical issues
– Have to be prepared for ‘cats’ put among ‘pigeons’ if there are
significant gaps in design; does it mean intervention is stopped ?
– Evaluators must not get too seduced by what EAs can achieve,
especially if original intervention design is weak
– EAs will not work everywhere and must always be light touch - there
will be a budget constraint
– Other techniques may be more appropriate (e.g. DFID approach
papers)
15. Linking to Evaluation Methods
• Using the starting point of Stern et al (2012) Broadening the
range of designs and methods for Impact evaluations, DFID
working Paper No 38.
– Selection of appropriate evaluation designs has to satisfy three
constraints or demands:
– Evaluation questions
– Programme attributes
– Available evaluation designs
16. Some criteria for choice of methods based on
the results of the EAs (criteria will interact)
• Purpose of the evaluation
• Level of credibility required: what sort of decisions will be
made on the basis of the evaluation?
• What does the agency know already, i.e. nature of existing
information and evidence
• Nature of intervention and level of complexity
• The volume of resources and nature of capacity available to
carry out the evaluation
• Governance structure of the implementing agency and
relationship with partners
17. Purpose of the evaluation
• This is the overarching framing question (so EA can make this
clear)
• Relates to the position of the intervention in the agency’s
planning structure and how evaluation has been initiated
• Any special role for stakeholders
• Is the evaluation being implemented for accountability,
learning or ownership purposes or for wider process
objectives
• Nature of topic: project, country, thematic, global, programme
• To set up an extension of an intervention
18. Level of credibility of evaluation results and
decisions to be made
• How does the decision maker need to be convinced? Independence
of the process ?
• How will the evaluation be used? What sort of evaluation
information convinces policy makers?
• What is the nature of the linkages between results and
intervention:
– Attribution
– Contribution
– Plausible attribution
• If attribution is required with a need for a ‘yes/no it works/or not’
decision, then have to choose an impact evaluation
• If contribution is required, then can use contribution analysis
• If ‘plausible attribution’ is required then can use an outcome
summative method.
19. Other common observations on method choice
(relates to criterion of credibility)
• Experimental: demonstrates counterfactual, strong on
independence, requires both treatment and control
• Qualitative: strong on understanding, answers ‘why?’ ,
difficult to scale up findings
• Theory based and realistic evaluation: compatible with
programme planning, strong emphasis on context, requires
strong ToC
• Participatory: provides for credibility and legitimacy, enhances
relevance and use, can be time consuming
• Longitudinal tracking: tracks changes over time and can
provide reasons for change, can be resource intensive
20. What does the agency and its partners already
know ?
• No need to repeat evaluations if they do not add to the
agency’s ability to take decisions (value of DFID writing
approach papers)
• Role of information banks outside the agency (e.g. systematic
reviews, research studies); external validity
• Have all stakeholders been involved with information
gathering at the design stage
• How strong is the M&E, will the ‘M’ be useful for the ‘E’
• Have worthwhile decisions been made in the past on existing
information, good enough for sound design
• Is some form of comparison group required ?
21. Nature of the intervention and level of
complexity
• Key question on complexity is: what is the level of complexity/
reductionism at which an intervention is implemented and an
evaluation can be carried out
• Do the findings of the evaluation provide the basis for going
ahead to make a decision ?
• If complexity is addressed in design through multiple
intervention components, some where the n=1 (addressed to
governments), some where n=thousands (addressed to
children), then different evaluation methods can handle this.
• But, what do we know already that allows the evaluator to
compromise on complexity ?
22. Resources and capacity
• Much choice comes down to the budget line, what the
evaluation staff know and how much they are willing to take
risks on unfamiliar methods (e.g. realist evaluation) and the
time lines they work to
• There are opportunities for methods to be applied differently
based on criteria already mentioned.
• Some agency staff describe the ‘20 day’, ‘30 day’ etc.
evaluation method, defined by the resources they have
• This is why the ‘outcome summative’ method is so popular
and why efforts should be made to improve it.
23. Governance Structure of the Agency
• Always remains a key issue as structure often inhibit risk
taking by the evaluators
• Role of the governing body and executive varies in terms of
what evaluators can do.
24. Importance of strengthening the ‘outcome
summative’ evaluation
• Still remains the most common evaluation method (over 75%
of evaluations ?) but not much covered in recent literature
• Large element of evaluator’s judgement involved, familiar,
convenient, inexpensive
• But considering other factors for choice it can become the
best choice: plausible attribution, aligned closely with other
information sources, acknowledges deficiencies in addressing
complexity, borrows ideas from other more rigorous
techniques such as some form of comparison group of
retrospective baseline.