A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy (2007)
This guide puts forth a framework for naming outcomes associated with advocacy and policy as well as directions for evaluation design. It includes a broad range of methodologies, intensities, timeframes and purposes.
Excerpts from this guide have reached international audiences, including a translation to French and publication in the journal Echos du Cote and a Russian translation.
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A Practical Guide to Documenting Influence and Leverage in Making Connections Communities (2004)
Practical advice for capturing and documenting influences and leverage in a Making Connections community. This guide provides clarification, concrete examples and suggested approaches for documentation of these often elusive concepts.
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Getting Started: A Self-Directed Guide to Outcome Map Development (2009)
Getting Started offers step-by-step advice along with concrete tools, templates and examples to help advocacy organizations express their theory of change via an outcome map. The outcome maps enhance communication and serve as a framework for evaluation planning.
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How to Manage and Analyze Data for Outcome-based Evaluation (2000)
This introduction to the process of outcome-based evaluation helps agencies collect and manage outcome data, and use common software packages such as Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel to summarize, interpret and present the results.
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Outcomes for Success! (2000)
An easy-to-digest, jargon-free “travel guide” to help agencies and organizations on their outcomes journey. It also can be used as part of a training course provided by outcome measurement consultants.
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Theory of Change: A Practical Tool For Action, Results and Learning (2004)
This guide describes an approach and practical strategies for engaging in theory of change work with community partners. It offers instructions in using specific techniques or “so that” chains and outcome maps in the development of a theory of change.
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