The Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) funds research-for-development projects for 3-5 year periods with the aim of “increasing the productivity of water for food and livelihoods, in a manner that is environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable”. Impact evaluations of CPWF’s projec...
A weak evaluative culture undermines many attempts at building an effective evaluation and results management regime. This brief outlines practical actions that an organization can take to build and support an evaluative culture, where information on performance is deliberately sought in order to...
Mayne, J.
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[Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management]
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Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management
Increased consumption of meat, milk, eggs, and fish among poor consumers in developing countries has the potential to improve nutrition as well as drive pro-poor economic development. However, animal-source foods are a major source of food-borne disease. In addition to the health impacts, concern...
Johnson, Nancy L.
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Mayne, J.
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Grace, Delia
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Wyatt, A.
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[How will training traders contribute to improved food safety in informal markets for meat and milk?: A theory of change analysis]
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How will training traders contribute to improved food safety in informal markets for meat and milk?: A theory of change analysis
A weak evaluative culture undermines many attempts at building an effective evaluation and results management regime. This brief outlines practical actions that an organization can take to build and support an evaluative culture, where information on performance is deliberately sought in order to...
Mayne, J.
,
[Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management]
,
Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management
Questions of cause and effect are critical to assessing the performance of programmes and projects. When it is not practical to design an experiment to assess performance, contribution analysis can provide credible assessments of cause and effect. Verifying the theory of change that the programme...
An ongoing challenge in evaluation is the need to make credible causal claims linking observed results to the actions of interventions. In the very common situation where the intervention is only one of a number of causal factors at play, the problem is compounded – no one factor 'caused' the res...