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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"evaluation capacity"”.
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The Relationship between Motivation and Evaluation Capacity in Community-based Organizations
… have identified the need to build their own evaluation capacity. Increasing the evaluation capacity of an organization requires evaluation capacity building at an individual level, which might be affected by other factors like employee work motivation. This quantitative study uncovers the …
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Promoting Continuous Learning and Organizational Improvement Through Role Based Evaluation Capacity Building
… learning programs, are hungry to engage in evaluation to improve their services to make the greatest impact. To bring this dream to life, individuals in the organization must develop the skills necessary to engage in evaluation and use findings as part of evaluation capacity building (ECB) …
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Using a participatory evaluation framework for building evaluation capacity in youth houses in Morocco
… The Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports made evaluation a pivotal component of its 2030 vision. Yet, it does not involve any mandates for internal evaluations. Given the fierce competition for grants and efforts for more financial accountability, funders now require organizations to be able to …
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Examining the Evaluation Capacity, Evaluation Behaviors, and the Culture of Evaluation in Cooperative Extension
Evaluation is a burgeoning field and remains fairly young by most standards. Within Cooperative Extension, evaluation practices have been implemented at a variety of levels given that evaluation is mandatory for much of the funding Cooperative Extension receives. With evaluation in high demand, it …
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Exploring Evaluation Capacity Building in Community-Based Health Organizations in India: What Works and Why
This research explored evaluation capacity building (ECB) needs and strategies, as well as facilitators and barriers experienced by program staff and independent evaluators working with community-based health organizations (CBHOs) in India. It suggests a significant shift from donor-led to CBHO-led …
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Aligning Cultural Responsiveness in Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building: A Needs Assessment with Family Support Programs
… to community resources. A major feature of evaluation involves assessing program effectiveness and learning from evaluation findings (Mertens and Wilson, 2012). Collaboration and cultural responsiveness are important topics in evaluation which remain largely distinct in the literature. …
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Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) as a Vehicle for Social Transformation: Conceptualizing Transformative ECB and Kaleidoscopic Thinking
Program evaluation has become an increasingly urgent task for organizations, agencies, and initiatives that have the obligation or motivation to measure program outcomes, demonstrate impact, improve programming, tell their program story, and justify new or continued funding. Evaluation capacity …
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The Power to Commission: Exploring the Evaluation Capacity and the Transformative Role of Evaluation Commissioners in the International Development Sector
<p>Evaluation commissioners play a central role in evaluation practice by generating demand for evaluation through issuing calls for evaluation services and managing evaluation contracts (Lemire, Nielsen et al., 2018; Nielsen et al., 2018b), particularly in the international development sector. Yet …
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Strengthening the “tap in way”: a case study of an evaluation capacity building effort in Tap In Leadership Academy’s summer enrichment program
This dissertation describes an effort to build evaluation capacity in a community-based organization – Tap In Leadership Academy. Following a 4-Step ECB Process, this study included facilitated work sessions with program staff and organizational leadership; observations of relevant program …
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Carbon Dioxide Storage in Coal Seams with Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery: Geologic Evaluation, Capacity Assessment and Field Validation of the Central Appalachian Basin
… This thesis documents research that assesses the capacity of coal seams in the Central Appalachian Basin to store carbon dioxide and verifies the assessment through a field validation test. This research allowed for the first detailed assessment of the capacity for coal seams in the Central …
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The Role of Evaluation Policy in Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation
Despite the recent calls made by scholars in the evaluation field regarding the importance of evaluation policy and its influence on evaluation practice, there remains a lack of empirical evidence pertaining to the relationship between evaluation policy and evaluation capacity building (ECB). This …
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Public finance management reform and expenditure control in Ghana: the role of the ministry of finance in implementing the MTEF
… of weak budget formulation, weak monitoring and evaluation, and an ineffective flow of information between the ministry of finance (MOF) and the key public institutions. The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) has been introduced in Ghana's public service but it has been faced with …
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Building a Fractal Evaluation: A Study on Improving Skills and Attitudes towards Evaluation Through a Design Similar to Program Pedagogy
This thesis is a study on using an evaluation model that mimics the educational pedagogy of an organization as an approach to evaluation capacity building. Referred to as a fractal evaluation, this model of using a "self-similar"� approach to learning in an organization sought to improve in staff …
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National Evaluation Policy Narratives: The Happening of Kenya's National Evaluation Policy
Despite the significance of National Evaluation Policies (NEPs) for good governance, there is limited understanding of how these policies are shaped or formed. Additionally, existing literature lacks a nuanced exploration of how NEP subgroups influence evaluation policy processes in sub-Saharan …
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BUILDING GRANTEE CAPACITY THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE-PROCESS-DRIVEN, PEOPLE-CENTERED-EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
Program evaluation is an essential function for grant-seeking organizations, yet many struggle with measuring the impact of their work. The form of program evaluation is also an ongoing challenge for funders. Many grant-seeking nonprofits possess limited internal capacity, and are consequently …
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Non-formal Educator Use of Evaluation Findings: Factors of Influence
… have resulted in more frequent calls for program evaluation activity in educational organizations. Many organizations include conducting program evaluations as part of the job responsibilities of program staff. Cooperative Extension is a national system offering non-formal educational programs …
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Evaluation that Empowers: An iterative investigation of how organisations can become evaluation-minded
… of my concern that the dominant discourse about evaluation in the UK limits how it is defined, recognised and practised. It is a discourse which primarily values performance, accountability, results and value for money. In this research, ‘Evaluation that Empowers’ (EtE) aims to present a …
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Let’s Get Strategic: An Exploration of the How-To’s, What-Not-to-Do’s, and Promising Upshots of Strategic Evaluation Initiatives
… a mechanism to improve the practice of program evaluation (Preskill & Mack, 2013). While there are a few guiding frameworks for strategic evaluation planning initiatives, these frameworks have not been systematically documented or explored. As such, there is limited understanding of the current …
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Exploring How Program Community Members Are Engaged in Evaluation Projects
… engage program community members in their evaluation projects. While there are ongoing debates on its efficacy, evaluation engagement is a widely discussed topic among evaluation practitioners and scholars. However, despite the growth in the literature surrounding engaging program community …
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Evalpreneurship: The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Evaluation Marketplace
… service within the knowledge economy, evaluation is a commercial industry as much as it is an academic discipline (Nielsen, Lemire, & Christie, 2018). However, the scholarship and training supporting evaluation practitioners focus primarily on how to conduct evaluation studies with …
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