Dealing with complexity in development evaluation : a practical approach /: a practical approach. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Michael Bamberger, Jos Vaessen, Estelle Raimondo.
• Editors: Bamberger, Michael; Vaessen, Jos; Raimondo, Estelle
• Contents: Part 1: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Framework; Chapter 1: Complexity in Development Evaluation: The Framework of the Book - Michael Bamberger, Jos Vaessen, and Estelle Raimondo; Chapter 2: Towards More Complexity-Responsive Evaluations: Overview and Challenges - Estelle Raimondo, Jos Vaessen, and Michael Bamberger; Chapter 3: Management of Complexity-Responsive Evaluations - Michael Bamberger; Part 2: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: Methodological Approaches; Chapter 4: Impact Evaluation Approaches and Complexity - Jos Vaessen, Estelle Raimondo, and Michael Bamberger; Chapter 5: Understanding What is Being Evaluated: Theory-Based Evaluation - Frans L. Leeuw; Chapter 6: Five Practical Evaluation Problems to Which TBE Can Contribute - Frans L. Leeuw; Chapter 7: Dealing with Complexity by Unpacking and Reassembling Elements of a Complex Program - Michael Bamberger, Estelle Raimondo, and Jos Vaessen; Chapter 8: The Importance of a Mixed Methods Approach for Evaluating Complexity - Michael Bamberger; Part 3: Emerging Data and Innovative Techniques to Deal with Complexity in Development Evaluation; Chapter 9: Complexity in Review and Synthesis Studies - Jos Vaessen; Chapter 10: Emergent Technologies and Creative Use of Multiple Sources of Information - Susan van den Braak, Sunil Choenni, and Michael Bamberger; Chapter 11: Applying Emergent Technologies to Complex Program Evaluations From the INGO Perspective - Kerry Bruce and Alison Koler; Chapter 12: The Evaluation of Complex Development Interventions in the Age of Big Data - Emmanuel Letouzé, Ana Areias, and Sally Jackson; Part 4: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: The Institutional Challenges; Chapter 13: Dealing with Institutional Complexity: Implications for Evaluation Design, Process, and Use - Estelle Raimondo; Chapter 14: Gender Equality in Development Evaluation: The Intersection of Complexities - Estelle Raimondo and Michael Bamberger; Part 5: Complexity of Evaluation in Practice: Case Studies; Chapter 15: A Case Study in Complexity: Evaluating a Long-Term Effort to Prevent Gender-Based Violence in El Salvador - Allison Davis and Melida Guevera; Chapter 16: Microcredit and Women's Empowerment: Complexity in Systematic Review - Jos Vaessen, Ana Rivas and Frans L. Leeuw; Chapter 17: Evaluation of Coordination Against Trafficking in Persons: A Case Study of a Complexity-Responsive Evaluation - Kim Forss; Chapter 18: Complexity from the Perspectives of Philanthropic Foundations and Their Evaluation - Leny van Oijen; Chapter 19: Evaluating General Budget Support - Antonie de Kemp and Geske Dijkstra; Chapter 20: Dealing with Complexity in a Realist Synthesis: Community Accountability and Empowerment Initiatives - Gill Westhorp, Bill Walker, and Patricia Rogers;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (480 pages)
• Subjects: 300.723; Evaluation research (Social action programs)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483344256; 1483344258
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