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The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University provides information on its Evaluation Checklists project and links to its evaluation reports . http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr. The Evaluation Center also maintains a Directory of Evaluators, developed with support from the National Science Foundation and publishes the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation online at http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1.
The Evaluation Exchange is a newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project that provides an exchange of ideas and practices in the evaluation of family support services and community development.http://www.hfrp.org/evaluation/the-evaluation-exchange
My M&E is an interactive platform to share knowledge on country-led monitoring and evaluation systems worldwide. Founded by IOCE, UNICEF and DevInfo, it is managed by a consortium of international organizations. Webinars and other evaluation training materials are free and open to interested people. http://www.mymande.org
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Development Assistance Committee Network on Development Evaluation, supports an online Evaluation Resource Centre (DEReC) that contains development evaluation reports and guidelines published by the Network and its 30 bilateral and multilateral members.
http://www.oecd.org/dac/evaluationnetwork.
Program Evaluation, at Penn State University, College of Agricultural Sciences, Cooperative Extension and Outreach, provides evaluation planning tools, including Tipsheets on specific evaluation techniques. http://www.extension.psu.edu/evaluation.
The Treasury Board of Canada—the functional equivalent to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget—maintains a database of government audits and evaluations and provides links to Canada’s federal policies, guides and standards for program evaluation, and international evaluation groups. http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/cee/index-eng.asp
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Evaluation Office: provides monitoring and evaluation policy and guidance, training tools, and reports evaluating the “relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability” of development assistance programs. http://www.undp.org/eo/index.html. United Nations Evaluation Group, a professional network of units responsible for evaluation in the United Nations system, provides access to publications and resources, such as a database of over 200 country level evaluations. http://www.uneval.org
University of Wisconsin, Division of Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation, provides evaluation planning tools, sample questionnaires, data collection and analysis guidance, samples and guidance on logic models, and reporting ideas. It uses extension-related examples. http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/.
William Trochim’s Center for Social Research Methods has materials that include online courses and tutorials on applied social research methods, including program evaluation and research design. http://www.socialresearchmethods.net.
World Bank Operations Evaluation Department provides links to ongoing and published evaluations and evaluation tools. http://www.worldbank.org/oed/. World Bank and Carleton University jointly sponsor an intensive 4-week program to build skills to conduct evaluations in the context of developing countries. The International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) takes place in June-July in Ottawa, Canada. See http://www.ipdet.org. |