Resources for Funders

Short review articles:

• The impact of NGO development Projects
  ODI Briefing paper 1996 (2) http://www.oneworld.org/odi/
  FREE
• Participatory monitoring and evaluation: Learning from Change.
  IDS Policy Briefing Issue 12 Nov. 1998 http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids
• Who Counts Reality? Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: A Literature Review
  Marisol Estrella and John Gaventa IDS Working Paper 70 1998
  £9.00
• Impact assessment methodologies for micro-finance: a review.
  (Prof.) David Hulme, at the Univ. of Manchester.
  E-mail Cath Baker at Cath.Baker@man.ac.uk
• Mand E news: An NGO news service re monitoring and evaluation:
  http://www.mande.co.uk/news.html

Books and Publications

• Participatory Impact Assessment: H. Goyder et al Action Aid 1998 £4.00
• Outcomes and impact: Evaluating change in Social Development 1998 P. Oakley and B. Pratt INTRAC
• Assessing the impact of NGOs, Women and Empowerment. Dawson, E. OXFAM 1996
• Linking costs and benefits in NGO projects. Riddell R. et al. 1996 ODI
• NGOs and Rural Poverty Alleviation. Riddell R. et al. 1995 Oxford University Press and ODI
• Impact Assessment: a review of best practice J. Dawson, ITDG, 1996
• Social Development Policies, Results and Learning: a multi agency review. Thin, N. et al 1998 Dept of social anthropology, Edinburgh University. Copies from s-hovell@dfid.gtnet.gov.uk
• Searching for impact methods: NGO Evaluation Syntheseis Study. Riddell, R, et al 1997 OECD ( DAC) Expert group on Evaluation. http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/ids/contents.htm
• Best practice in evaluation of Humanitarian Assistance programmes.Hallam, A. ( working draft) OECD ( DAC) Expert group on Evaluation a.hallam@odi.org.uk
• Is Social Auditing good for us? Oxfam takes a look at a growing phenomenon.Dawson, E. 1998 aburgess@oxfam.org.uk
• Other Social audit material from The New Economics Foundationhttp://sosig.ac.uk/NewEconomics/newecon.htm
• Methods for the Evaluation of poverty oriented aid interventions. 1995 DANIDA.
• NOVIB and OXFAM UK/I Impact assessment Research Programme- various studies.
• The impact of NGO development Projects.Briefing paper. ODI
• Evaluating the effectiveness of Poverty Alleviation Programmes -the OECD, the UN, and the World Bank have agreed to focus on a series of key goals in partnership with developing countries... This site explains the core set of indicators. http://www.oecd.org/dac/indicators/

Resources for Community and Voluntary Organisation grant holders

Books and Publications

• Everyday Evaluation on the RunWadsworth, Yoland. 2nd Edition , Allen & Unwin 1997. (115pp)
• Monitoring & evaluation made easyAnne Connor. HMSO 1993 £12.95
• Monitoring OurselvesAnne Connor 1993 Charities Evaluation Services ( part of a series)
• Partners in EvaluationFuerstein, M.T. 1987 TALC £4.50
• Self evaluation- a combined handbook & toolkit. NCH 1993 £20.00
• Introducing Evaluation- W. van der Eyken 1992 Bernard van Leer Foundation ( also available in Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew and Portuguese)
• Evaluating Social Development ProjectsMarsden, D. & Oakley, P. (eds)1990 Oxfam
• Toolkits- a practical guide to assessment monitoring review and Evaluation Gosling et al 1995 SCF
• A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development WorkersFrances Rubin 1995 (Oxfam) GBP4.95
• Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries ODA 1995 (HMSO) GBP19.95
• Monitoring and Evaluating Small Business Projects: A step by step guide for private development organizations SEEP , 1987 (PACT Publications) GBP25.00

One of the best sources in USA and UK of these kinds of publications is the ITDG publications- they have bookshops, a catalogue , a postal service and are on line. ( All available at ITDG Bookshop or by post - tel: 00 44 207 436 9781 ; fax: 00 44 207 436 2013 itpubs@itpubs.org.uk)