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A Practical Guide to Evaluating Systems Change in a Human Services System Context This Guide is for evaluators who would like a practical “way in” to thinking about systems and systemschange. The key practical step the Guide takes is to limit the type of system to be evaluated to aparticular type of system (a type that systems change initiatives often target): a human servicesdelivery system (e.g. health, education, workforce development, etc.).Author: Nancy Latham Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2015 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.03 MB) -
A User's Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning Julia Coffman of Harvard Family Research Project produced this free guide to advocacy evaluation planning for advocates, evaluators, and funders. The guide introduces users to the composite logic model and includes a pullout worksheet along with several lists of sample advocacy evaluation outcomes and methods. Author: Julia Coffman Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Sep 1, 2009 Point K Pick
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2009 This five-day program on evaluating social programs provides a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies.
Courses have been recorded and loaded as videos online, split up by topic. You may also access the course lecture notes and assignments.Author: Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, & Abhijit Banerjee Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: May 1, 2009 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Achieving a Policy Change: Key Strategies and Factors for Success The authors, from the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, presented the following issue brief at the American Evaluation Association 2008 conference. The document includes two case studies from an evaluation of The California Endowment's Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program between 2001 and 2006. Author: Gardner, Annette; Marshall, Nell; Geierstanger, Sara; Quinn, Holly Type: Research & Reports Date: Oct 1, 2008
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ActionAid Update No. 1 The ActionAid Update newsletter series provides a summary of the impact of participatory policy work being undertaken by ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency. The action research project was carried out over a period of three years in four countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda. In each country, a research facilitator worked with 1-3 partner organizations to explore some of the challenges they were facing with their advocacy work. Author: ActionAid International Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Jan 1, 2003 Be the first to review this resource! Download (486.41 KB) -
ActionAid Update No. 2 The ActionAid Update newsletter series provides a summary of the impact of participatory policy work being undertaken by ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency. The action research project was carried out over a period of three years in four countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nepal and Uganda. In each country, a research facilitator worked with 1-3 partner organizations to explore some of the challenges they were facing with their advocacy work. Author: ActionAid International Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Apr 1, 2003
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ActionAid Update No. 3 The ActionAid Update newsletter series provides a summary of the impact of participatory policy work being undertaken by ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency. The action research project was carried out over a period of three years in four countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nepal and Uganda. In each case, a research facilitator worked with 1-3 partner organizations to explore some of the challenges they were facing with their advocacy work. Author: ActionAid International Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Jul 1, 2003 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.71 MB) -
Addressing Attribution of Cause and Effect in Small n Impact Evaluations: Towards an Integrated Framework With the results agenda in the ascendancy in the development community, there is an increasing need to demonstrate that development spending makes a difference, that it has an impact. This requirement to demonstrate results has fuelled an increase in the demand for, and production of, impact evaluations. There exists considerable consensus among impact evaluators conducting large n impact evaluations involving tests of statistical difference in outcomes between the treatment group and a properly constructed comparison group.
Author: Howard White and Daniel Phillips Type: Research & Reports Date: Jun 1, 2012
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Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model and associated materials This collaborative work by more than 50 advocates, grantmakers, and evaluators offers a way to improve communication in the advocacy evaluation field by articulating common goals, outcomes, and indicators. Supplements to the Model include guiding questions, definitions, and samples based on hypothetical advocacy situations—one each for the intended "strategy" and "evaluation" uses of the Model. There is also an online tool based on the Model.
Author: Coffman, Julia, et al. Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: Apr 1, 2007
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Advocacy & Public Policy Grantmaking: Matching Process to Purpose Building on research conducted in 2007 by Coffman and Campbell, this brief summarizes advocacy and public policy grantmaking approaches and their implications for grant portfolio composition and management, auxiliary supports and evaluation. “Advocacy and public policy grantmaking” refers to grantmaking in support of a wide range of advocacy activities that are intend to trigger, block, maintain, support and/or monitor changes in public policy at any level of government. Author: Tanya Beer, Pilar Stella Ingargiola, and Meghann Flynn Beer Type: Research & Reports Date: Aug 5, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.17 MB) -
Advocacy & Public Policy Grantmaking: Matching Process to Purpose The Colorado Trust, in an effort to better understand the field of funding advocacy and public policy work, commissioned this publication to describe strategies funders use; advantages and tradeoffs to funding advocacy; implications for funders, advocates, and evaluation; and implications for the outcomes the Colorado Trust is working towards. It identifies three buckets of funding strategies that have emerged: the policy target approach, the advocacy niche approach, and the field building approach.
Author: Tanya Beer, Pilar Stella Ingargiola, Meghann Flynn Beer Type: Research & Reports Date: Aug 1, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (379.48 KB) -
Advocacy and evaluation: national organizations as advocates Canadian Evaluation Society's approach to advocating evaluation at the national level, focusing on transnational sharing of evaluation knowledge to promote the use of evaluation in society. Author: Joe Kpachevsky, Marie-Hélène Adrien, & Charles Lusthaus Type: Research & Reports Date: Sep 1, 2000 Be the first to review this resource! Download (33.25 KB) -
Advocacy and Policy Change This issue of Harvard Family Research Project's The Evaluation Exchange focuses entirely on advocacy evaluation. It features over two dozen articles on current evaluation practice, including theory, case studies, interviews, and practical tips. Author: Coffman, Julia (ed.) Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Mar 1, 2007
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Advocacy by UK-Based Development NGOs This article from Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly provides an overview of the advocacy activities of non-governmental organizations based in the United Kingdom, with a focus on issues of legitimacy, representation, and accountability. Using material from a recently completed research project, this study examines the growing advocacy work of UK NGOs, the position advocacy holds in their work, their efforts to collaborate, their relationships with donors, and their evaluation practices. Author: Hudson, Alan Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Sep 1, 2002 Be the first to review this resource! Download (129.46 KB) -
Advocacy Capacity Tool The Advocacy Capacity Tool (ACT) is for organizational assessment. ACT, released in May 2012, is a self-assessment tool that allows organizations of any size and issue area to gauge their advocacy skills, knowledge and abilities.
The Tool includes four sections of assessment, and gives users an individual scoring report as well as the ability to compare results with other organizations of similar size, issue area, and location.
Author: Bolder Advocacy (an initiative of Alliance for Justice) Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: May 1, 2012 Be the first to review this resource! Download (719.51 KB) -
Advocacy Capacity Tool (ACT) Report: First 100 User Groups (Executive Summary) In September 2013, Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy Initiative released a report offering a glimpse into how nonprofit organizations view their capacity for public policy work. The report is based on data from the first 100 groups to complete AFJ’s online self-assessment tool, the Advocacy Capacity Tool.Author: Alliance for Justice Type: Research & Reports Date: Sep 1, 2013 Be the first to review this resource! Download (703.04 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation The Change Agency website, which includes an advocacy evaluation resource list. The Change Agency is a collective of activist educators and researchers based in Queensland, Australia. Their advocacy evaluation project aims to research resources and examine what frameworks people are finding useful.
Author: The Change Agency Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: May 28, 2008
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Advocacy Evaluation Advances Framing Paper This framing paper provides the rationale, goals, and background information for the Advocacy Evaluation Advances convening held in Los Angeles on January 20-21, 2009. Produced prior to the convening, the paper offers an overview of topics to be discussed and current advocacy evaluation practice, illustrated with real-life examples drawn from the convening agenda.
Author: The California Endowment Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 20, 2009 Be the first to review this resource! Download (314.5 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Resource List This list categorizes selected advocacy evalution resources (most of which are available here on Point K) according to the following questions:
Author: Coffman, Julia Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Nov 1, 2007
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Advocacy Evaluation Update #10 In this issue:
ADVOCACY EVALUATION AND RIGOR - How to be Methodically Rigorous in the Field of Advocacy Evaluation By Lily Zandniapour and Kathy Brennan
PROFILES FROM THE FIELD - Dr. Paul Zeitz, The Global AIDS Alliance By Laura Ostenso
SPOTLIGHT A User’s Prospective on an Advocacy Evaluation Planning Tool from the Children’s Aid Society - By Moria Cappio and Melanie Reyes
EDITOR’S PICKS News, Events, and Resources
Author: Julia Coffman (ed.) Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Oct 1, 2010 Be the first to review this resource! Download (425.54 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update #9 In This Issue:
1. Feature: Framework of Factors that Affect Political Support
Why do some issues receive priority attention from political leaders while others receive very little? Political scientist Jeremy Shiffman has developed a framework that offers a response to this question.
2. Spotlight: Evaluating Community Organizing
Catherine Crystal Foster and Justin Louie identify what to consider when evaluating community organizing efforts. They also offer example benchmarks and methods for capturing organizing outcomes.
Author: Julia Coffman (ed.) Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: May 1, 2010 Be the first to review this resource! Download (329.6 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update (Issue #1, June 2007) The inaugural issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update includes the following:
1) brief updates about new models, guidelines, thinking, and resources in the field of advocacy evaluation; and
2) evaluation stories about advocacy and evaluation efforts undertaken by Oxfam, Open Society Institute, and the California Endowment.
Author: Innovation Network Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Jun 27, 2007 Be the first to review this resource! Download (490.28 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update (Issue #2, November 2007) The second issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update includes the following:
1) brief updates about new models, research, and resources in the field of advocacy evaluation; and
2) interviews about advocacy and evaluation efforts undertaken by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Planned Parenthood.
Author: Innovation Network Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Oct 31, 2007 Be the first to review this resource! Download (353.06 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update (Issue #3, March 2008) The third issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update includes the following:
1) updates about advocacy evaluation resources available online;
2) highlights from the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG (Topical Interest Group) conference sessions (including research summaries and links to additional resources) presented at the American Evaluation Association's 2007 annual conference; and
3) interviews with three of the leaders of AEA's Advocacy and Policy Change TIG.
Author: Innovation Network Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Mar 12, 2008 Be the first to review this resource! Download (584.99 KB) -
Advocacy Evaluation Update (Issue #4, September 2008) The fourth issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update includes the following:
1) New publications from Innovation Network and The Atlantic Philanthropies;
2) a scan of available advocacy evaluation trainings (fifteen organizations included); and
3) AEA 2008 schedule, including sessions hosted by the Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG).
Author: Innovation Network Type: Newsletters & Periodicals Date: Sep 30, 2008
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