This database of publications comprises outputs from our team and partner organisations that are relevant to the areas of work in which CDI aims to be active.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 found.
April 2016
Realist evaluation provides valuable insights into how and why programmes lead to change, and can generate transferable lessons to help practitioners roll out or scale up an intervention. However, as yet there are few standards and guidelines governing what counts as a...
March 2016
This CDI Practice Paper by Richard Longhurst, Peter Wichmand and Burt Perrin discusses how evaluability assessments (EAs) can support the choice of evaluation approaches for determining impact, drawing on recent experiences of the International Programme on the Eliminat...
March 2015
With the increase in resources that organisations are dedicating to evaluation the issue of evaluation quality has risen up the agenda and a growing number of commissioners are now looking at how to ensure the studies they commission are of sufficient quality.
May 2013
Most agency evaluations are very short both on resources and in duration, with no proper opportunity to assess impact in a valid manner.The methodology for these evaluations is based on interviews, a review of available programme literature and possibly a quick visit to...