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Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, this unique book offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can be undertaken in the real world of time, budget, data, and political constraints. Introductory chapters present comprehensive, non-technical overviews of the most common evaluation tools and methodologies, and additional content addresses more cutting-edge material. The book also includes six case study chapters to illustrate examples of various evaluation contexts from around the world.
Understanding What Is Being Evaluated : Theory-Based Evaluation (TBE)
Understanding What Is Being Evaluated : Theory-Based Evaluation (TBE)
Programs are theory incarnate.
Theory-based evaluations help to get at the why and how of program success or failure.
The theory we accept shapes our policy decisions.
Theory-based evaluation (TBE) is widely used as the framework for the design and interpretation of evaluations of complex development programs. It has the flexibility to address the multiple dimensions of complexity and to overcome the limitations of most established evaluation designs for addressing complex causality and the processes of interaction between a complex program, the multiple stakeholders with which it interacts, and the system and context in which it is embedded. This chapter ...
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