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Monitoring and evaluation

Woman in Laos (DFAT)

Monitoring & evaluation: topic guide

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Designing and monitoring PFM reform: helpdesk report

Participatory methods for community consultation

Helpdesk Report
  • Siân Herbert
May 2013

This annotated bibliography identifies literature about specific participatory methods and tools for community consultation. Key findings Some donors have used particular participatory methodologies to inform country level strategy – such as Participatory Poverty Assessments by the World Bank and a donor staff immersion approach by the Swiss Agency for Development and ...» more

Community Monitoring of Service Delivery

Helpdesk Report
  • Claire Mcloughlin
February 2008

Community involvement in the systematic collection of information to assess the quality of public services can take many forms. Mechanisms include citizen report cards (survey-based quantitative assessments of services) community scorecards (quantitative surveys combined with qualitative meetings), social audits (combination of the two) or participatory expenditure tracking. ...» more

Lessons from stabilisation, statebuilding, and development programming in South Sudan

Helpdesk Report
  • Siân Herbert
January 2020

This rapid literature review collates lessons from major evaluations and learning reviews from development, state-building and stabilisation programming in South Sudan since independence in 2011. Key findings include:  Donors in South Sudan have had to transition from humanitarian to development aid and back and forth a number of times as conflict has broken out. Donors ...» more

Doing research in fragile contexts

Literature Review
  • Iffat Idris
April 2019

Research is critical to understanding and addressing the problems seen in fragile and conflict affected states (FCAS). The scale and impact of these problems is staggering: in 2016 about 1.8 billion people were living in fragile contexts but this is predicted to grow to 2.3 billion (28% of total world population) by 2030; poverty is also increasingly concentrated in fragile ...» more

Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Public Works Programmes

Helpdesk Report
  • Zenobia Ismail
June 2018

This helpdesk report aims to outline the scope, impact and challenges associated with public works programmes (PWPs) in development and humanitarian contexts. PWPs have been implemented in a broad range of countries to help working-aged poor people to cope with economic shocks or chronic poverty (McCord, 2012b). The majority of PWPs are effective in terms of increasing food ...» more

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