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This brochure includes detailed information of the 5-day Executive Programme: The Practice of Development Evaluation: An evidence-informed…
Suppose the Department of Health and Family Welfare has conducted a rigorous evaluation to determine the impact of a maternal and child…
A fundamental question for development practitioners to ask is: did our program work? That is, did our program have an effect on a specific…

CLEAR Board Chair’s message
I am excited to have recently joined CLEAR as its new CEO and Chair of its governance bodies. The…

CLEAR Board Chair’s message
I am excited to have recently joined CLEAR as its new CEO and Chair of its governance bodies. The…

The purpose of this Quality Assurance (QA) Framework is to enable the development and implementation of high quality Capacity Development (…
This technical course introduces impact evaluation as a key instrument for determining project/program effectiveness, informing policy…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) defined a set of development targets to be achieved by 2015. Although a number of targets had been…

Requirements for a midterm and final evaluation were built into the funding agreements and expectations of funders and CLEAR Centres since…
Overview
Framework of typical change agents (stakeholders) who are typical targets for collaboration with CLEAR
Examples of…

Rationale and Objectives
Management for results requires governments and civil society to have interest in and capacity to monitor,…
Overview
All Council members are invited
The meetings can be in-person or virtual with at least one meeting per year in-person
The…

In 2015, the CLEAR program updated its theory of change, to illustrate how CLEAR operates and what CLEAR expects to be its achievements and…
As the pages of this annual report reflect, CLEAR has established a global presence with a common cause – engaging in evaluation capacity…
Launched in 2010, CLEAR brings together selected and recognized academic institutions or think tanks with other organizations, such as…
The Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) Initiative was established in January 2010 as a multilateral partnership among…
CLEAR, established in 2010 as a multilateral partnership, is aligned with the objectives of these international agreements. Its vision is…


A collection of evaluation articles from thought leaders from the field of evaluation.
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February 2014
In recent years, there has been a growing demand to measure the impact of social and economic programs. Governments are now…
May 2012
This roundtable was the second in a series of M&E roundtables organised by CLEAR South Asia on Best Practices in Data…
September 7, 2012
This roundtable on Instrument Design was the third in a series of M&E roundtables organised by CLEAR South Asia on…
November 22, 2012
This roundtable was the fourth in a series of M&E roundtables organised by CLEAR South Asia on Best Practices in…
February 21, 2013
CLEAR South Asia in partnership with the Community of Evaluators (CoE) and UNICEF held the fifth event in a series of M…
May 15, 2013 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
CLEAR South Asia in collaboration with Community of Evaluators and 3ie organized the sixth event in a…
July 15, 2013
This roundtable was the seventh in a series of M&E roundtables organised by CLEAR South Asia. This roundtable was…
November 26, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
CLEAR South Asia in collaboration with the Community of Evaluators (CoE) and UNWomen organised the…
February 13, 2014 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CLEAR South Asia in collaboration with the Community of Evaluators (CoE) and UN Women organised the…
April 22, 2014 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This discussion focused on the specific challenges of civil society and development organizations to…
August 7, 2014 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CLEAR South Asia in collaboration with BRAC, Community of Evaluators (CoE), Innovations for Poverty…
February 16, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia at IFMR in collaboration with Community of Evaluators (CoE) and UN Women…
L’étude procède à une analyse de la demande explicite et/ou naissante en Suivi et évaluation (S&E) axés sur les résultats et en Gestion…
This report is for use by the CLEAR CESAG Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Center for Francophone Africa.
It serves the following…

L’étude procéde à une analyse de la demande explicite et/ou naissante en Suivi et évaluation (S&E) axés sur les résultats et en Gestion…
L’étude procéde à une analyse de la demande explicite et/ou naissante en Suivi et évaluation (S&E) axés sur les résultats et en Gestion…
L’étude procéde à une analyse de la demande explicite et/ou naissante en Suivi et évaluation (S&E) axés sur les résultats et en Gestion…

目录 Contents
1. 成立背景 Background
2. 学院宗旨 Vision
3. 战略目标 Strategic Objectives
4. 主要活动 Academic Activities
5. 合作伙伴 Partnership
6. 环境设施…
Presentation Overview:
Background/ Motivation
Intervention: Design, Measurement, Threats
Summary of Research Findings
Next steps…

Presentation Overview
Traditional v. Result based M&E Approach
Government effort towards Result based M&E
J-PAL SA effort…
Lecture Overview
Attrition
Spillovers
Partial Compliance and Sample Selection Bias
Intention to Treat & Treatment on Treated…
Course Overview
1.What is evaluation?
2.Measuring impacts (outcomes, indicators)
3.Why randomize?
4.How to randomize?
5.Sampling and…
Cost Effectiveness Analysis from clearsateam
Overview
Introduction
Log Frames and M&E
Why digital/mobile data collection
Types of Mobile Data collection – Examples
Demo…
Lecture Overview
What should you measure?
What makes a good measure?
Measurement
Data Collection
Piloting
Designing Indicators from…

Lecture Overview
Unit and method of randomization
Real-world constraints
Revisiting unit and method
Variations on simple treatment-…

Course Overview
1.What is evaluation?
2.Measuring impacts (outcomes, indicators)
3.Why randomize?
4.How to randomize?
5.Sampling and…
Course Overview
1.What is Evaluation?
2.Measuring Impact
3.Why Randomize?
4.How to Randomize?
5.Sampling and Sample Size
6.Threats…
Presentation Overview
Introduction to Theory of Change
Building a Theory of Change
Why is Theory of Change Important?
Testing competing…

This report seeks to present in relation to evaluation in Zambia: (i) the conditions under which demand is generated for evidence; and (ii…

This report provides a review of two dimensions of evaluation practice in Malawi: (i) the conditions under which demand for evidence is…

There is growing recognition of the critical role of evaluations to generate relevant information to guide the decisions and actions of…

This study investigates the conditions under which demand for evaluation is generated, the latent and potential demand for evaluation, the…

This Bellagio Forum was held to encourage fresh thinking in support of the Made in Africa Approach to Evaluation program being established…

Course Overview
1.Framing Impact Evaluation through Theory of Change
2.Measuring impacts (outcomes, indicators)
3.Why randomize?
4.How…

Lecture Overview:
Monitoring and Evaluation
How to Build an M&E System
Importance of M&E from clearsateam
This guide provides practical guidance on program classification – that is, on how to define programs and their constituent elements under…

When decision makers wish to use evidence from monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems to assist them in making choices, a demand for…
The workshop, case studies and the synthesis paper were sponsored by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in the…


This knowledge product will be a reference guide for using mobile-based technology, and its associated benefits of real-time data sharing…

En los últimos años se ha avanzado progresivamente en el desarrollo de una base conceptual y metodológica para mejorar los procesos de…

In recent years, we have advanced progressively in the development of a conceptual and methodological basis for improving the processes of…

This report synthesizes information from nine studies conducted under the Regional Centers on Learning for Evaluation and Results (CLEAR)…


Governing through public policies entails many challenges. Among other, it requires the construction of effective mechanisms for the…

This publication provides a diagnostic assessment of the status of the Management for Development Results (MfDR) framework in Mexico .

This book presents a selection of cases studies and a comparative assessment of the factors that influence commitment to evaluation and the…

The quality and effectiveness of public policies and government performance are key factors for the promotion of development and democratic…

This manual is designed to accompany the courses on performance budgeting delivered at the regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and…


El último cuarto del siglo XX fue un periodo de grandes transformaciones para América Latina. Los países de la región se unieron –con los…

Despite important progress in the institutionalization of M&E systems at the national level, subnational governments in Latin America…

Overview
• Background – “Review of Getting the Framework Right”
• Key Findings from the Review
• Review Findings Assessment
• Survey…
In recent years, driven by the strong domestic need of improving the performance of government, the public demands for political…
This study argues that the political economy of a country conditions the opportunities for evaluation to be used in policy processes.…
In this study, four international NGOs1 present their experiences using evaluative thinking at the organizational, program, and project…

South Africa is an exceptional case study with regards to the private sector’s engagement in the education sector. This has deep historical…
CLEAR and J-PAL Africa are bringing together leading researchers doing randomized evaluations of questions related to the South African…
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia at IFMR organized the M&E Roundtable #13: “What can we learn from evaluations? Exploring the generalizability of…
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia at IFMR organized M&E roundtable # 14 on “Gender and Vulnerability: Evaluation Frameworks and Learning for…


All development programmes have an objective or goal. For example, a programme that distributes free textbooks to primary school students…

CLEAR South Asia Interactive Course Manual has been prepared for CLEAR regional centers like J-PAL, IPA, and the wider monitoring and…

As countries respond to the demands of rapidly changing development contexts, the need to find the right systems and tools to promote…


This document shares core evaluation findings of a series of pioneering regional and metropolitan development funds in Mexico. It…