Evaluations for Sustainable Development Experiences and Learning

Contents: Section I: Evaluation Policy and Ethics. 1. Policy support to evaluations for good governance and sustainable development/Rashmi Agrawal and B.V.L.N. Rao. 2. What prevents creating evaluation environment?/I.C. Awasthi and G.P.Joshi. 3. Ethical challenges for evaluation in India/Alok Srivastava. 4. Programme evaluation and evaluation policy of Karnataka 1969 to 2014/Brijesh Kumar Dikshit. 5. An evaluation of the system of evaluation for developmental programmes in India/Manoj Kumar Mishra. 6. A policy paper: reformation and rationalization of CHCs in Haryana/Ashish Gupta, Vivek Sharma and Pratyush Bishi. 7. Evaluation in India: retrospect and prospects/K.N. Pathak. 8. Programme evaluation in India and the world: need for a national evaluation policy/B.K. Pandey and Abhishek Mukherjee. Section II: Participatory Approaches to Evaluation. 9. Study of administrative structure of hospital management in 200 bedded district hospitals of Haryana/Ashish Gupta. 10. Recognition of women farmers at state level through institutional strengthening and advocacy: learning from evaluation study in Uttar Pradesh/Nemthianngai Guite, Samik Ghosh and Aniruddha Brahmachari. Section III: Gender and Evaluation. 11. An evaluative analysis of unemployment in India/Farha Anis. 12. Review and learning from an endline evaluation commissioned by OXFAM India for the programme “promoting violence-free lives for women from poor and marginalized communities in India”/Aniruddha Brahmachari, Samik Ghosh and Julie Thekkudan. 13. Evaluating effectiveness of elected women representatives of PRI in monitoring quality of health service provision through accountability checklists/Aparajita Gogoi, Madhu Joshi and Manju Katoch. 14. Experience of evaluating gender integration in livelihoods improvement for economic security (LIFE) project, Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu/D. Yeswanth and Sashi Kumar. Section IV: Evaluations in Fragile Conditions (Humanitarian Conditions/Hard to Reach). 15. Monitoring and evaluating humanitarian aid: are aid information management systems an adequate tool?/Neha Kumra. 16. People: the real source of information and insight: evaluation methodology and challenges in fragile conditions/Khadija Javed Khan. 17. Real time evaluations: one NGO’s experience of learning and improvement of humanitarian responses/Vivien Margaret Walden. 18. Research methods for understanding and measuring impact among ‘hard-to-reach’ undocumented international migrants in India/Nabesh Bohidar and Navneet Kaur. Evaluations for Sustainable Development: Experiences and Learning is a collection of writings on Evaluation of Development Programs in both government and non-governmental settings. It is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills on evaluations - in the field of policy, gender, fragile conditions. It also has a number of papers on innovations in evaluation. The product is collation of years of evaluation experience from the world’s talent; it distills the daunting complexity of evaluation, experiences in different settings of development into clear, concise papers. Whether you are development practitioner, evaluation expert, young professional, student, whether you are on the field or the evaluation office, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better understanding of evaluations?”.…