Evaluation and Aid Effectiveness No 5 - Evaluation Feedback for Effective Learning and Accountability

Evaluation and Aid Effectiveness No 5 - Evaluation Feedback for Effective Learning and Accountability

Evaluation is a key tool in improving the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Working Party in Aid Evaluation is the only international forum where bilateral and multilateral evaluation experts meet regularly. Its Members meet to improve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2001.
Materias:
Development
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. WORKSHOP REPORT
  • Executive Summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Changing Aid Landscape 
  • 3. The Feedback Challenge 
  • 3.1. Learning and accountability
  • 3.2. The learning frontier
  • 3.3. Obstacles to learning
  • 3.4. Addressing the demand side
  • 4. Understanding Target Audiences 
  • 4.1. Better targeting
  • 4.2. Parliament, ministers and boards
  • 4.3. The Media
  • 4.4. NGOs and CSOs
  • 4.5. The general public
  • 4.6. The case for disclosure
  • 5. Getting the Message Across 
  • 5.1. Learning by doing
  • 5.2. Relevance
  • 5.3. Timeliness
  • 5.4. Quality issues
  • 5.5. Language barriers
  • 5.6. Intelligent use of the Internet
  • 5.7. Interagency lesson learning
  • 5.8. The value of face-to-face communication
  • 6. Involving Partners 
  • 7. Institutional Issues 
  • 7.1. The status of evaluation units
  • 7.2. Institutionalising lesson learning
  • 7.3. Results based management
  • 7.4. Staffing and resourcing
  • Conclusions
  • Annex I. Workshop Programme 
  • -Annex 2 List of Participants in the DAC Tokyo Workshop 
  • -Annex 3. Press Release 
  • PART II. BACKGROUND SYNTHESIS REPORT
  • -Executive Summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The story so far
  • 1.2. So what is new?
  • 1.3. Current practices: the starting point
  • 1.4. Structure of the report
  • 2. Challenges
  • 2.1. Dual objectives: learning and accountability
  • 2.2. The move away from project-level evaluations
  • 2.3. The dissemination challenge
  • 2.4. Institutionalising lesson learning
  • 2.5. Process and politics
  • 2.6. The role and status of central evaluation units
  • 2.7. Encouraging participation and ownership
  • 2.8. Responding to information overload
  • 3. Opportunities 
  • 3.1. Taking advantage of the Internet
  • 3.2. Using evaluation feedback to enhance learning in the organisation
  • 3.3. Linking in with the International Development Goals
  • 3.4. Looking ahead
  • -Annex 1. Conclusions from Previous Evaluation Feedback Studies
  • -Annex 2. Background Questionnaire and Results 
  • -Annex 3. Evaluation Products 
  • -Annex 4. Review of Evaluation Web Resources 
  • Bibliography

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