Centre for Development Impact (CDI). Learning and innovation in impact evaluation, through the use of appropriate, mixed method, and robust evaluation designs.
Woop!! Article with @ivandiego + @NigelCulkin introducing Realist Evaluation to #ented competitions is *open access* for 2 months! Thank you IHE editors + @SAGE_EdResearch. #Ented colleagues, esp those who know #careers#ented teachers, please @ & RT - https://t.co/Ye8EwSnGUw
New #IDSbulletin (The Millennium Villages: Lessons on Evaluating Integrated #RuralDev) offers a series of articles on #integrateddev & "how best to know whether it works & why" – great summary via @CDevImpact/@IDS_UK's Chris Barnett:
https://t.co/KiBhfhvxsV
As researchers, we are often encouraged to use both qual and quant methods. But how difficult is this in practice and is it worth the extra effort? @samsharp reveals all:
What we’ve learnt doing mixed-methods behavioural research in Uganda https://t.co/5kytnbwrq9 (from @ODIdev)
Looking to expand your #impacteval skills? Join our five-day course for professionals on how to effectively design impact evaluations using a contribution analysis framing. https://t.co/vaUP5FWEor #evaluation#AEA18#AEA
Thursday 8th November at 1pm. New CDI seminar delivered by @Pete_OFlynn and Seife Ayele of @IDS_UK on Agribusiness' data collection practices of smallholder farmers. What reflections can we take away for the #SDGs?
The IDS Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation course aims to equip individuals and organisations to more effectively design impact evaluations using a contribution analysis framing. Apply now
https://t.co/JHK1ZRHyqI
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New CDI blog on the challenges of smallholder data collection by Agribusinesses in Africa. What does this mean for how we evaluate this sector? https://t.co/rvayzAqUGO @Pete_OFlynn #Evaluation#Data#SDGs
Fascinating reading not just for young and emerging evaluators in the top tips that @ZendaOfir host on her webpage: https://t.co/KSZIuNthhG. We can all learn from these tips! @Eval_Youth
But as @harryrutter and colleagues so eloquently put it “[the] rhetoric urging complex systems approaches … is only rarely operationalised in ways that generate relevant evidence or effective policies” 3/
Aligning our impact evaluation efforts with development policy challenges requires:
1. Abandoning the claimed hierarchy of methods, with Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) at the top, and making clear that “scientific” and “rigorous” evidence is not confined to RCTs.
VIDEO: Impact Evaluation for Development - How impact #evaluation can facilitate in identifying and scaling up the right things to increase the chances of development interventions to work for the poor https://t.co/YVh9qk53id via @YouTube
@Mental_Elf True - and this is why it is so important for respective evaluation research to also look into issues and negative impact and not just to "evidence positive outcomes". Everybody likes a success story but we have to also look into risks of treatments.
Designing impact evaluations that are not blind to the different dimensions of power: useful @oxfamgbpolicy blog shares sampling strategies for #resilience and #citizenship programme evaluation that systematically take #gender into account https://t.co/1DSFNAKTX9
The Methods Lab #evaluation toolkit develops and tests flexible approaches to #impact evaluation for interventions that are harder to evaluate because of their complexity. Download templates, guidance notes and working papers: https://t.co/Gm7buBJumM Photo: UNDP (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
@C0PE Related reading: @Pete_OFlynn et al (2016) "Assessing contrasting strategies for ensuring ethical practice within evaluation: institutional review boards and professionalisation" https://t.co/TltL5Juic9