Evaluating Development Programmes and Projects

✍ Scribed by Reidar Dale

• Publisher: Sage
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is the revised edition of the author's earlier and very successful Evaluation Frameworks for Development Programmes and Projects (SAGE, 1998).

Divided into three parts, this is a comprehensive and holistic, yet easily accessible, book on the context, focus, scope and methodology of evaluations in the field of societal development.

Part one discusses the general conceptual and analytical framework of evaluation. In Part Two the general framework made up of classical categories of relevance, impact, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and replicability is succinctly discussed. Part Three discusses the evaluator's craft.

Using a number of original and innovative case studies to illustrate the processes and perspectives of evaluations, this book draws on applications of evaluation tools from `real-life' situations.

Focusing on development programmes and projects in developing countries, the conceptual and methodological frameworks can be applied in evaluation research across the social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 16
Preface to the First Edition......Page 18
General Conceptual and Analytical Framework......Page 22
Purposes of Evaluation......Page 32
Evaluation Versus Appraisal and Monitoring......Page 45
Linking to Planning: Means–Ends Analysis......Page 52
Linking to Planning: Societal Context Analysis......Page 62
A Framework of Analytical Categories......Page 74
Assessing Organisational Ability and Performance......Page 85
Evaluating Capacity-Building......Page 97
Evaluating Societal Change and Impact......Page 106
Scheduling of Evaluations and Evaluation Tasks......Page 118
General Study Designs......Page 128
Methods of Inquiry......Page 143
Economic Tools of Assessment......Page 170
Indicators of Achievement......Page 178
Management of Evaluations......Page 188
References......Page 208
Index......Page 212
About the Author......Page 215