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Building Evaluability Assessments into Institutional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Frameworks

Published by: IDS

This CDI Practice Paper by Richard Longhurst, Peter Wichmand and Burt Perrin discusses how evaluability assessments (EAs) can support the choice of evaluation approaches for determining impact, drawing on recent experiences of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Office.

Transforming Governance: What Role for Technologies?

Published by: IDS

The technological innovations of the last two decades – cell phones, tablets, open data and social media – mean that governments and citizens can interact like never before. Around the world, in different contexts, citizens have fast-increasing access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) that enable them to monitor government performance and express their views on it in real time.

Institutionalising Impact Monitoring and Assessment of Microfinance: Experiences from the Philippines

Published by: IDS

For most development programmes or organisations in the Philippines, impact assessment (IA) is still a one-off, donor-driven activity...

Beyond Approaches and Models: Reflections on Rights and Social Movements in Kenya, Haiti and the Philippines

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

These reflections arise from two related concerns. First, the worsening conditions of poverty in poor countries despite numerous...

Managing the Environment for Development and to Sustain Pro?poor Growth

Asia’s rich environmental management traditions sustained its people for centuries. Practical examples include the rice terraces of...

The Philippines: Ten Years After the Crisis

The Philippines’ economic situation in Asia has always been unique. Prior to the regional financial crisis in the late 1990s, the...

Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed...

Introduction: What is the Unique Contribution of Volunteering to International Development?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This editorial article introduces this IDS Bulletin on the value of volunteering. The issue is based on the global action research...

Volunteering for Development within the New Ecosystem of International Development

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article explores the ways in which volunteering for development is changing in the context of the shifting wider ecology of...

Using Participatory Methodologies to Achieve Change in Valuing Volunteering

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The global action research project Valuing Volunteering explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reduction and...