Download or read book Evaluating Humanitarian Action Using the OECD DAC Criteria written by Tony Beck and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation and Aid Effectiveness No 1 Guidance for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation is a key tool in improving the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Working Party in Aid Evaluation is the only international forum where bilateral and multilateral evaluation ...
Download or read book Applying Evaluation Criteria Thoughtfully written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability are widely used evaluation criteria, particularly in international development co-operation. They help to determine the merit or worth of various interventions, such as strategies, policies, programmes or projects. This guidance aims to help evaluators and others to better understand those criteria, and improve their use.
Download or read book OECD Development Co operation Peer Reviews Towards Better Humanitarian Donorship Twelve Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication outlines the 12 most important humanitarian lessons from the DAC peer reviews, profiles examples of good donor behaviour highlighted in the peer reviews, and sketches out the challenges donors still face.
Download or read book DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility Improving Learning for Results written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guidance presented in this book provides step-by-step guidance on the core steps in planning, carrying out and learning from evaluation, as well as some basic principles on programme design and management.
Download or read book The DAC Guidelines written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries want to join in the globalisation process. However, the increasing complexity of global markets, the new challenges of the multilateral trading system and the competing demands of regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreemen
Download or read book International Aid Evaluation written by Thomaz Kauark Chianca and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation has been intertwined with international aid work since its inception in the late 40's-early 50's, but it is still an area with considerable room for improvement. If, as is often alleged, evaluations of international development efforts are methodologically weak they are misleading international agencies about the real impact of the sizable amount of resources being spent. A recent study by Chianca, described in this thesis, with a sample of 50 US-based international non-profit organizations (INGOs) illustrates the serious situation of the structure and practice of evaluation in those agencies. A number of efforts to improve this situation have been put in place. Some of them have greater focus on methodological solutions and push for the development of more rigorous impact evaluations using experimental or quasi-experimental designs. Other efforts, while maintaining perspective on the importance of adopting more rigorous evaluation methods, have instead prioritized the establishment of principles and standards to guide and improve evaluation practice. Studies involving thorough analysis of the main efforts to improve international aid evaluation and of the most prominent evaluation standards proposed to the development field are scarce. This dissertation is a contribution to the field in several ways: (i) it provides a general synthesis of the current movements to improve aid evaluation; (ii) it describes and assesses some of the most prominent standards for aid evaluation; (iii) in particular, it presents a thorough assessment of the most widely adopted set of evaluation criteria worldwide, the five OECD/DAC evaluation criteria, with specific suggestions for improving them; (iv) it discusses results of a survey of INGOs on their evaluation principles and practice, and their feedback on the evaluation standards recently proposed by InterAction (the largest coalition of US-based INGOs); and (v) in the light of the preceding, it provides InterAction and other aid agencies with concrete suggestions to improve future revisions of their evaluation standards and guidelines.
Download or read book Guidance for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies written by Niels Dabelstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanitarian Response Index 2007 written by Silvia Hidalgo and published by DARA. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, millions of people are affected by conflict and natural disasters. Growing public awareness of these crises and their severity and tragic consequences has resulted in an increase in the available funding over the past decades and demonstrated the need to reform the international humanitarian system. It is now more important than ever to have the kind of information and practical tools that allow humanitarian action to be assessed, so that it can be improved. The HRI addresses one of the main links of the humanitarian response system, donor countries, whose policies critically influence the rest of the chain. Donors can apply pressure to make humanitarian action more effective, relevant, and coherent. The HRI provides an annual, detailed analysis of the evolution of humanitarian action, donor commitments, and outstanding challenges. Its aim is to raise the awareness – among donors, humanitarian actors, and society as a whole – about the importance of humanitarian action and the principles of Good Humanitarian Donorship. The information in the HRI focuses on the promotion of active policy dialogue in the search for coherent answers to an increasingly complex reality.
Download or read book The Road to Results written by Linda G. Morra-Imas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a "rigorous" quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question. The text begins with the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations. The topics of implementing 'Results-based Measurement and Evaluation' and constructing a 'Theory of Change' are emphasized throughout the text. Next, the authors take the reader down 'the road to results, ' presenting procedures for evaluating projects, programs, and policies by using a 'Design Matrix' to help map the process. This road includes: determining the overall approach, formulating questions, selecting designs, developing data collection instruments, choosing a sampling strategy, and planning data analysis for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method evaluations. The book also includes discussions on conducting complex evaluations, how to manage evaluations, how to present results, and ethical behavior--including principles, standards, and guidelines. The final chapter discusses the future of development evaluation. This comprehensive text is an essential tool for those involved in development evaluation.
Download or read book Evaluating International Humanitarian Action written by Professor Adrian Wood and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarian interventions have become a much more frequent form of assistance as a result of increases in violent conflicts within countries, a greater external willingness to intervene in such conflicts, and the increased incidence of natural disasters. The need to evaluate the effectiveness of such interventions has increased in consequence. In this volume, the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) has compiled for the first time an examination of the experiences of those practically engaged in humanitarian programme evaluation, and the lessons learned about the evaluation process. The case studies included in this volume are drawn from four continents, including Central Asia and the Balkans. They embrace the different kinds of humanitarian emergency that have afflicted so many people during the past decade. The volume addresses the context in which evaluations of humanitarian action take place; the actual process of doing evaluations; and the lessons for improving how such evaluations might be better undertaken in future. This pioneering volume is likely to be of great practical value to agencies and individuals engaged in both the delivery humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies and its evaluation.
Download or read book A Symbolic Approach to Humanitarian Action written by Diego Otegui and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to present an alternative view of humanitarian action. It adds to current conversations and dilemmas within the humanitarian sphere by departing from traditional views that consider humanitarian interventions as a concrete human activity aimed at providing relief to disaster victims. Much differently, it invokes the idea that humanitarian action is also a cognitive process. In this process, both humanitarians and disaster survivors alike, unknowingly, apply historically, societally, and culturally defined symbolic constructions to make sense of post-disaster information and to make decisions. In the specific case of humanitarian workers, these symbolic constructions influence how they understand their post-disaster reality, including how they relate to those they consider to be in pain or distress. This way of looking at humanitarian action builds upon a robust theoretical framework called Institutional Logics, which helps us identify and interpret how individuals make sense of their reality. So it brings the complex world of the individual into a discussion that generally considers the organization as the unit of analysis. Studying humanitarian action through this alternative lens makes it easy to see that objective and verifiable post-disaster information is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to design humanitarian interventions, let alone assess their value and benefits. A Symbolic Approach to Humanitarian Action: It Takes One to Know One aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in humanitarian action by translating academic knowledge into an accessible format that can be used by practitioners to improve their work on the ground.
Download or read book OECD Development Co operation Peer Reviews Ireland 2020 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland is a strong voice for sustainable development. Quality partnerships with civil society, staunch support for multilateralism and good humanitarian donorship are hallmarks of its development co-operation.
Download or read book Humanitarian Ethics written by Hugo Slim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.
Download or read book Evaluation and Turbulent Times written by Jan-Eric Furubo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can evaluation contribute in times of turbulence? Examining the state of evaluation today, the volume's editors cover a broad range of topics, including post-hoc evaluation; shifting economic paradigms; the World Bank Group's response to the global economic crisis; challenges in evaluating financial literacy; evaluating counter-terrorism programs; evaluation in the context of humanitarian crises; and why civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa matter in evaluating poverty interventions. The contributors explore the role of evaluation in the search for solutions to global instability. They recognize, however, that in order to address unprecedented crises, evaluation itself needs to be evaluated and updated as part of the process of change and reform. This volume is the latest in Transaction's well-respected Comparative Policy Evaluation series.
Download or read book DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Quality Standards for Development Evaluation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guide lays out standards for each phase of a typical evaluation process: from defining purpose, to planning, designing, implementing, reporting, and learning from and using evaluation results.
Download or read book Humanitarian Action written by Kate Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
