Category: Blog
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Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence

Evaluation use is a key issue for the evaluation community. The aim of evaluation is to be influential, so it should be of use to policymakers, programme developers, project planners and managers. We recently used a survey of evaluators to explore the concept of evaluation use, how evaluation practitioners view it and how this translates…
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Theory of Change and Logframe
– A Theory of Change is a theory of how a certain initiative leads to desired changes. – A Logframe represents an analytical process and a set of tools that are used as support to a process of planning and managing a program according to defined objectives. Additional readings – Center for Theory of Change…
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Evaluation
– A process, which is commonly systematic and objective to a feasible extent, by means of which the values or a significance of an activity, policy or a program, a planned intervention, an ongoing intervention or a completed intervention is determined. – A periodic evaluation (assessment) of a program’s efficiency, effectiveness, impact and relevance, according…
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Monitoring
– A continuous process of collecting and analyzing information, based on key indicators so as to determine progress toward meeting objectives. – A steady function that employs a systematic collection of data on specific indicators to provide management and stakeholders with indicators depicting the degree to which progress and objectives have been accomplished, and the…
