Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation

A Practical Approach
Herausgeber: Bamberger, J Michael; Raimondo; Vaessen, Jozef Leonardus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, this unique book offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can be undertaken in the real world of time, budget, data, and political constraints. Introductory chapters present comprehensive, non-technical overviews of the most common evaluation tools and methodologies, and additional content addresses more cutting-edge material. The book also includes six case study chapters to illustrate examples of various evaluation contexts from around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blue Rose Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781483344249
• ISBN-10: 148334424X
• Artikelnr.: 42856082

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Framework
Chapter 1: Complexity in Development Evaluation: The Framework of the Book
- Michael Bamberger, Jos Vaessen, and Estelle Raimondo
Chapter 2: Toward More Complexity-Responsive Evaluations: Overview and
Challenges - Estelle Raimondo, Jos Vaessen, and Michael Bamberger
Chapter 3: Management of Complexity-Responsive Evaluations - Michael
Bamberger
Part 2: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: Methodological
Approaches
Chapter 4: Impact Evaluation Approaches and Complexity - Jos Vaessen,
Estelle Raimondo, and Michael Bamberger
Chapter 5: Understanding What is Being Evaluated: Theory-Based Evaluation -
Frans L. Leeuw
Chapter 6: Five Practical Evaluation Problems to Which TBE Can Contribute -
Frans L. Leeuw
Chapter 7: Dealing with Complexity by Unpacking and Reassembling Elements
of a Complex Program - Michael Bamberger, Estelle Raimondo, and Jos Vaessen
Chapter 8: The Importance of a Mixed Methods Approach for Evaluating
Complexity - Michael Bamberger
Part 3: Emerging Data and Innovative Techniques to Deal with Complexity in
Development Evaluation
Chapter 9: Complexity in Review and Synthesis Studies - Jos Vaessen
Chapter 10: Emergent Technologies and Creative Use of Multiple Sources of
Information - Susan van den Braak, Sunil Choenni, and Michael Bamberger
Chapter 11: Applying Emergent Technologies to Complex Program
Evaluation From the INGO Perspective - Kerry Bruce and Alison E. Koler
Chapter 12: The Evaluation of Complex Development Interventions in the Age
of Big Data - Emmanuel Letouzé, Ana Areias, and Sally Jackson
Part 4: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: The
Institutional Challenges
Chapter 13: Dealing with Institutional Complexity: Implications for
Evaluation Design, Process, and Use - Estelle Raimondo
Chapter 14: Gender Equality in Development Evaluation: The Intersection of
Complexities - Estelle Raimondo and Michael Bamberger
Part 5: Complexity of Evaluation in Practice: Case Studies
Chapter 15: A Case Study in Complexity: Evaluating a Long-Term Effort to
Prevent Gender-Based Violence in El Salvador - Allison R. Davis and Melida
Guevera
Chapter 16: Microcredit and Women¿s Empowerment: Complexity in Systematic
Review - Jos Vaessen, Ana Rivas and Frans L. Leeuw
Chapter 17: Evaluation of Coordination Against Trafficking in Persons: A
Case Study of a Complexity-Responsive Evaluation - Kim Forss
Chapter 18: Complexity from the Perspective of Philanthropic Foundations
and Their Evaluation Practices - Leny van Oijen
Chapter 19: Evaluating General Budget Support - Antonie de Kemp and Geske
Dijkstra
Chapter 20: Dealing with Complexity in a Realist Synthesis: Community
Accountability and Empowerment Initiatives - Gill Westhorp, Bill Walker,
and Patricia Rogers
Glossary
Index