Links to Monitoring/Evaluation; Reflection/Learning

Gateways and Resource Centres

Monitoring and Evaluation News Website. Comprehensive website with many links to, networks, training providers, mailing lists, resources, glossaries, etc. Includes further links to:
• Useful links to other specialist M&E websites
• M&E of capacity building
• "Working with the Logical Framework (under duress or by desire)" Nice title....

Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. Managing and Learning for Impact in Rural Development. Resource Portal of the International Agriculture Centre, The Netherlands.

Outcome Mapping Learning Community. Still frustrated by logframes? Then try this - the place to learn about Outcome Mapping, find resources, share experience, etc.

Tools and methods for M&E. Page from the "Institutional Learning and Change" (ILAC) iniative of the CGIAR - "promoting collaborative pro-poor agricultural innovation". Growing site summarizing methods, tools and approaches for monitoring and evaluation of collaborative projects.

The Impact Alliance ... "a global action and learning network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact within the communities they serve". Useful site with good links to articles and other gateways on impact assessment.

Discussion Papers

Enhancing learning through evaluation: Approaches, dilemmas and some possible ways forward. By C. Carlsson and P. Engel. Part of the Strategy and Innovation Section of the Website of the European Centre for Development Policy Management.

Searching for Impact and Methods:NGO Evaluation Synthesis Study. A Report Prepared for the OECD/DAC Expert Group on Evaluation.

Institutional Approaches and Manuals

Evaluation Unit of the International Development Research Centre. Includes links to evaluation resources and also IDRC's own manual on "Outcome Mapping" approach which emphasises outcome as changes of behaviour within partnerships.

IFADs office of evaluation. Includes the introduction to the Practical Guide on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects, and the guide itself: Managing for impact in rural development: A guide for project M&E.(also available in French, Spanish).

PovertyNet Home.. World Bank site with links to resources on monitoring and impact assessment of projects. Includes Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook.

Process Monitoring (ProM) Work Document for project staff Published by GTZ, Germany.

AM&E (Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation) Council for International Development Resource Kit.

Keystone’s tools for Impact Planning, Assessment and Learning (IPAL) "help social purpose organizations to plan, monitor, evaluate and communicate their work in a way that is deeply sensitive to the complexity of social systems and change processes".

UNICEF M&E Training modules. Nicely laid out stuff.

Regional Experience

Evaluation of training and learning

Donald L Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model - the four levels of learning evaluation

Training and learning evaluation, feedback forms, action plans and follow-up.

Evaluation tools (19 pages of useful evaluation sheets).