Download or read book Costs and Benefits of Evaluation in Development Cooperation written by Eunsuk Lee and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is little doubt about the importance of evaluation in development cooperation, the proliferation of systematic evaluation has raised concerns over the so-called “evaluation deadweight” which may exist where costs of evaluation exceed the benefits. We need to understand what values we have created by the evaluation at what costs, whether the benefits meet our expectations, and if we are achieving value for money in development evaluation. Based on these assessments, we may finally draw lessons and learn how we can improve evaluation practice as we do when conducting evaluations of development programs. To ensure the costs are better spent to create larger benefits, it would be necessary to pay more attention to the problems we want to solve by evaluation and allocate more resources in well-targeted evaluations rather than repetitive project evaluations.
Download or read book Evaluating Development Assistance written by Lodewijk Berlage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Evaluation in Developing Countries written by W. Haven North and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre. This book was released on 1988 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Social Projects in Developing Countries written by Howard E. Freeman and published by Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center. This book was released on 1979 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Analysis and Program Evaluation for Resource Management written by United States. Defense Logistics Agency and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Development Programmes and Projects written by Reidar Dale and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of evaluation methodology, practice and use have become prominent in recent times since the need for evaluation is increasingly being felt in many different areas of public life. This entirely New Edition of a successful book deals with the focus, scope and methodology of evaluation in the field of societal development. The focus is on development programmes and projects in lesser developed countries but the author’s methodological frameworks have a wider framework.
Download or read book Methods and Procedures in Aid Evaluation written by Development Assistance Committee's Expert Group on Aid Evaluation and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Evaluation Game written by Aant Elzinga and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Evaluating Development Effectiveness written by George Keith Pitman and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practitioners give insights on building and satisfying demand for evaluation in developing countries and on the use of evaluation findings to improve decision making on development policies and programs." "This volume offers useful insights into methods for evaluating the effectiveness of development and assessing the performance of development aid and aid agencies."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book International Development Cooperation Theory Practice And Evaluation written by Jianzhi Zhao and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the theory, practice and evaluation methods of international development cooperation, aid and assistance management in detail from a global perspective. It attempts to answer the following questions: How effective are the current Western aid methods? How should China optimize current international development cooperation? How to effectively design an aid management system in the international community? How to assess the effectiveness of aid?The book contributes to studies in international development cooperation. The theoretical part analyzes the main concepts, viewpoints, theories, and disputes in current international development cooperation, primarily focusing on the differences in concepts between traditional development donors and emerging donors represented by China. The practical part studies the roles and importance of different subjects in international development assistance. This part also explores the impact of different aid management institutions on international development cooperation. The evaluation part reviews the current mainstream methods of international development assessment and uses non-experimental methods of impact evaluation and randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Download or read book Evaluating Development Aid written by Basil E. Cracknell and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'must-have' for all development professionals, this book begins by reviewing the state-of-the-art of development aid evaluations. It then considers the more recent issues in aid evaluation, such as impact evaluation and the importance of sustainability. It looks at how evaluators can reconcile accountability and objectivity with newer participatory approaches. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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 Benefit cost Evaluation as a Criterion for Federal Resource Development written by Robert Beaudon River and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equity Evaluation and International Cooperation written by Gabriella Y. Carolini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is South-South Cooperation (SSC) any different from other international partnerships in practice? While straightforward, this question often gets lost in conventional scholarship on SSC and international cooperation, which privileges macro-level narratives of how cooperation mechanisms fit within geopolitical concerns and shape the outcomes of foreign aid. Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation instead offers an answer from the ground up. It highlights two main lessons from the close examination of the ecosystem of international cooperation projects in the urban water-and-sanitation sector in Maputo, Mozambique. First, the book shows that macro labels attributed to international cooperation reflect very little about how cooperation projects operate on the ground and the equity consequences of their work. Second, how projects are designed, implemented, and evaluated does matter to the quality of learning that emanates from partnerships. Beyond the geopolitical and technical proximities favored by the SSC discourse, this book argues that what matters in practice is whether hierarchy or heterarchy is institutionalized in the governance of cooperation projects; whether project partners are locally embedded in shared work spaces; and whether practitioners value flexibility and recognize the epistemic value of learning from all partners as peers. A strong evaluation culture within the international development industry, however, still subjugates such equity-based concerns and deep learning in projects to accountability, reinforcing orthodox power asymmetries in cooperation and sustaining epistemic and distributive injustice. This book instead provides a framework for how project evaluations, as a key narrative instrument of development, can instead promote distributive, procedural, and epistemic justice in international cooperation projects.
Download or read book Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project economic analysis is a tool used by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to ensure that ADB operations comply with its Charter. The guidelines in this publication are a revised version of the 1997 edition. The revision responds to the changing development context and ADB operational priorities, and aims to address the recommendations of the ADB Quality-at-Entry Assessments for more methodological work on project economic analysis. The revised guidelines provide general principles for the conduct of project economic analysis, and should be read together with handbooks, technical reports, and other reference materials published by ADB dealing with sector-specific project economic analysis in detail.
Download or read book Evaluation Manual written by Sven Grabe and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Guide to evaluation techniques, with particular reference to project evaluation of technical cooperation development projects - covers methods, timing, defining objectives, cost benefit analysis, data collecting, etc.; shows how evaluation techniques can be applied to specific projects (learning, community development, training programmes, etc.). Bibliography.
