Quick Reads to Get Started
- Article: How to Talk About Nonprofit Impact from Inputs to Outcomes
- Blog: Difference between inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact
- Video: Foundations of M&E: Definitions of Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
- Article: Development is not a science and cannot be measured. That is not a bad thing
Books
- Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation: Stakeholder Involvement Approaches - Fetterman et al.
- Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks - Markiewcicz & Patrick
- Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice - Patton
- Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice - Brisolara
- Indigenous Research Methodologies - Chilisa
- Program Evaluation Theory and Practice - Mertens & Wilson
- Transformative Research and Evaluation - Mertens
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Resource Websites
- AEA365 - Tip-a-day blog by the American Evaluation Association - subscribe for free!
- Africa for Results
- Better Evaluation
- DME for Peace - Targeted at peacebuilding with lots of great resources, video lessons, field guides, regular video series and webinars.
- Eval Partners
- MEASURE Evaluation
- USAID Learning Lab
Example Evaluation Associations
Many countries and regions have evaluation associations, or networks of practitioners, that share resources. These are also referred to as Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPES), and some examples of these are listed below. If you don’t see your country listed, use a search engine to see if one exists in your country or region.
- Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN)
- African Evaluation Association (AfriEA)
- American Evaluation Association (AEA)
- Australasian Evaluation Society (AES)
- Brazilian Monitoring and Evaluation Network (BMEN)
- Canadian Evaluation Society (CES)
- Commonwealth of Independent States - International Program Evaluation Network (IPEN)
- Community of Evaluators (CoE), South Asia
- Réseau Ivoirien de Suivi et d’Evaluation (RISE)
- Egyptian Research and Evaluation Network (EREN)
- European Evaluation Society (EES)
- Fonds pour la promotion des etudes préalables, des etudes transversales et des evaluations (F3E)
- Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC)
- International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
- Evaluation Society of Kenya (ESK)
- The National Monitoring and Evaluation Network of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz M&E Network)
- Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización en América Latina y el Caribe (ReLAC)
- Association Morocaine de l’Evaluation (AME) [Moroccan Evaluation Association (MEA)]
- Réseau Nigérien de Suivi Evaluation (ReNSE)
- Romanian Evaluation Association (EvalRom)
- l’Association Sénégalaise d’Evaluation (SénEval)
- South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA)
- Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA)
- Zimbabwe Evaluation Association (ZEA)
