Links




3schools.com

African Evaluation Association (AfrEA)

AfrEA is an umbrella organisation for national M&E associations and networks in Africa, and a resource for individuals in countries where national bodies do not exist.

American Evaluation Association (AEA)

The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.

Congressional Testimony on U.S. Assistance to Africa

Better U.S. assistance to Africa requires broad foreign assistance reform, CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet said in congressional testimony last week. Meanwhile, Rep. Howard Berman promised to introduce legislation soon for a comprehensive U.S. development strategy, and the GAO released a new report pushing for such reform. CGD's Sarah Jane Staats finds plenty of toe tapping but at least one step forward in the U.S. aid reform dance.

Video and transcript

On May 21, the Brookings Institution hosted Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for a discussion of U.S. foreign assistance reform and the importance of foreign relations authorisation.

Education/ Lectures/R/ Index

Elementary concepts in Statistics

Frame for Program Evaluation

International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)

IDEAS is a global network of development practitioners and evaluators committed to capacity building, networking, applying innovative methodological approaches, and sharing knowledge, especially in developing countries and countries in transition.

kirkpatrickpartners

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/

Visit the website

This interactive online atlas, from the World Bank and Mapping Worlds, is focused on making development more accessible to people. It organises information from the Bank’s World Development Indicators database around the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations (UN) through 16 colour-coded maps (two per MDG) designed to quickly show concentrations of economic poverty, disease, and other critical development issues. The objective of the World Bank is to point to where economically poor nations need to focus on "good governance and poverty reduction" and where economically wealthy countries are challenged to "make good on their promises to support economic and social development."


Monitoring toolkit

Visit the website

South Africa Development Indicators is used to compile and disseminate data on human development and in particular the situation of children in South Africa. It is a powerful database system with simple and user-friendly features that produce tables, graphs, and maps for inclusion in reports, presentations, and advocacy materials.

The database currently consists of 6.650 data entries against 128 indicators organised by Millennium Development Goals and 8 sectors (demography, economy, education, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, protection). Data is available at three geographical levels (national, provincial, and district) mainly for the period 1994-2008 and has been derived from 64 different sources. Metadata provided for each indicator describes the definition, methodology and additional comments.

If anyone is interested in the "How To" document, you can access it on the server instead of downloading it as the file is very large (10 MB). It can be found in G:\_New Structure\Management & Support\Learning and Knowledge Mgmt\Resources\GIS & Maps

South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA)

Khulisa has played a large role in establishing and promoting the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). One of Khulisa’s directors served as the founding chair of SAMEA during the Association’s first two years, as well as the coordinator of SAMEA’s predecessor Task Force.

steps tool kit

Visit the website

CRIS, the Country Response Information System version 3.0, is an information system developed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS’ (UNAIDS) Evidence, Monitoring and Policy Department. CRIS facilitates the collection, reporting and analysis of programme projects’ financial and indicator data.

Originally designed to support UNGASS reporting, the system has evolved to provide country monitoring infra-structure, serving best the needs of the national AIDS authorities to track progress on national response to HIV and AIDS and in reaching Universal Access.

Some of the main highlights of CRIS3 include:

  • Ability to import indicators from the Indicator Registry, and flexibility in indicator data entry;
  • Intuitive and clear user interface, reducing need for user training and time needed for use;
  • Options of using CRIS3 either via web in countries with good internet access, or as a standalone application in settings with limited connectivity with data exchange between systems

Visit the website

The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different environment and health variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Population, Emissions, Climate, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.