Developmental Evaluation

Relevant Resources

• What is Developmental Evaluation? A tool to help you understand what Developmental Evaluation is, how it is different from traditional evaluation, and whether it is something your organization should adopt. By Paul Bakker & Kaitlyn Kochany
• 邦訳: DE Companion ～発展的評価の旅のおともに～ 発展的評価（DE）は、複雑性の諸概念を駆使し、高い状況適応力が 必要とされる動的な状況において評価の活用を強化するものです。 その概念の一つが因果の非線形モデル(2)で、これはいくつかの小さ な行動が大きな反響を生むという考え方です。一般的にDE、そして 特にこの『DE Companion』は、物事はまっすぐに進まないという考 えを基調においています。これを理解し、その痕跡をたどるために、ま ず物事の始まりを紐解いてみましょう。
• A Developmental Evaluation Companion Provides an overview of the essential elements of Developmental Evaluation, alongside case studies to help illustrate DE in practice

• Kia Tipu Te Ao Mārama This tool introduces two really compelling evaluation frameworks: Te Korekoreka and the Niho Taniwha. It is useful when looking for frameworks embody indigenous values, perspectives and approaches to social innovation.
• Analysis standards of social innovations This tool's purpose is to assist social innovators – and those who support them to – think about, analyze and evaluate their social innovations.
• CECAN – The Complexity Evaluation Toolkit This toolkit is a comprehensive resource aimed at helping evaluators and policymakers navigate the limitations of traditional evaluation approaches in complex situations.
• Developmental Evaluation online course Developed by Kate McKegg, Jamie Gamble and Dr Jess Dart, this 10-week online course on Developmental Evaluation offers a powerful way to help social innovators – especially those working in complex environments – learn and adapt their design as it is being developed.
• Evaluation and Communication Decision-Making: A Practitioner’s Guide By Ricardo Ramírez & Dal Brodhead.
• Knowledge Base – Designing Evaluation and Communication for Impact (DECI) Case studies and presentations on Developmental Evaluation and Utilization-Focused Evaluation.
• Utilization Focused Developmental Evaluation: Learning Through Practice Report on a pilot project in Amsterdam developing a social and financial education curriculum for youth called Aflateen. By Ricardo Ramírez, Galin Kora and Daniel Shephard.
• Translating Project Achievements into Strategic Plans: A Case Study in Utilization-Focused Evaluation Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) is a decisionmaking framework intended to design and implement evaluations which stakeholders will use.
• Comparing the Validity Of Two Sets Of Evaluation Principles – Adding Value to Both This chapter from Collaborative approaches to evaluation provides a comparative analysis between the evidence-based principles for collaborative approaches to evaluation (CAE) and those associated with the DECI (Developing Evaluation Capacity in Information Society Research)- hybrid approach).
• Readiness in Evaluation: Three Prompts for Evaluator Brings attention to examples from practice to highlight three dimensions of readiness: the power to design, the commitment to learn, and building an evaluation culture.
• Evaluation and Communication Mentoring for Capacity Development: A Hybrid as a Decision-Making Framework A report on a decision-making framework that enables projects and programs to take ownership of their evaluation and communication plans. By Ricardo Ramirez, Wendy Quarry, Dal Brodhead and Sonal Zaveri.
• DEPA – MERL – Developmental Evaluation Case Studies Case Overview: Uptake of Innovations at the US Global Development Lab
• DEPA – MERL – Developmental Evaluation Case Studies Case Overview: Improving Maternal and Newborn Health in Indonesia
• DEPA – MERL – Developmental Evaluation Case Studies Case Overview: Supporting Community Peace Building in Sri Lanka
• Evaluating Developmental Evaluation in USAID-FCF Pilot A Study of the Family Care First in Cambodia
• DEPA – MERL – Developmental Evaluation Case Studies Case Overview: Supporting Scale-Up of an HIV Prevention Program
• Advancing the Use of Developmental Evaluation A summary of key questions answered during a multiyear study of developmental evaluations implemented at USAID.
• DEPA – MERL – Developmental Evaluation Case Studies Case Overview: Using DE to Achieve Health Service Integration in Tanzania
• The Case for Developmental Evaluation The Case for Developmental Evaluation by Marcie Parkhurst, Hallie Preskill, Jewlya Lynn, Marah Moore
• Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton
• Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Ties That Bind: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative
• Utilization Focused Evaluation: A Primer for Evaluators This Primer is for practitioner evaluators and project implementers who have heard of Utilization Focused Evaluation and are keen to test-drive the approach.
• Systems Change Evaluation Forum This Executive Summary provides an overview of the discussions convened by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation where they developed a common understanding of systems change evaluation and grappled with four practical dilemmas that systems change efforts create for evaluation.
• Equitable evaluation framing paper This intent of this framing paper was to set the stage for an invitational roundtable in August 2017 where findings and implications and potential next steps were explored focusing primarily on philanthropic domestic evaluation practices.
• 8 types of Uncertainty – Challenge Capacity Requirements This tool by Elizabeth Dozois provides an overview of Challenge-Capacity requirements, including the types of challenges and the type of learning required.
• Implementing DE: A Practical Guide for Evaluators and Administrators This guide explores ways to navigate the dynamics and complexities of DE within the realities of a large-scale development organization.
• Complexity Shock Reactions Visual outlining common responses to complexity.
• Implementing DE: A Practical Guide for Funders This guide explores ways to navigate the dynamics and complexities of DE within the realities of a large-scale development organization.
• Budgeting for DE Michael Quinn Patton describes budgeting for Developmental Evaluation in a interview with Heather Britt for Better Evaluation in April of 2012.
• Developing a User Profile – Aid to Action The User Profile Worksheet and User Profile Card explore the primary users’ questions, what kind of decisions they will make with the answers to the questions, their preferences for how the assessment should be conducted, and when they need the evaluation feedback
• DE decision tree Developed by Mark Cabaj, this tool helps people assess whether they are ready for the Developmental Evaluation approach.
• Developmental Evaluation Principles and Practices This tool outlines common principles of Developmental Evaluation and describes 5 critical practice differences.
• Developmental Evaluation – Diagnostic Checklist The aim of Developmental Evaluation is to support social innovators tackle complex challenges. This assessment tool will help you assess if DE is a good fit for your situation.
• Remote DE This guide identifies challenges in conducting remote DEs, shares emerging best practices for overcoming them, and highlights other considerations for remote DEs.
• Amplifying Learning in Systems Change Investments: An Experience in Developmental Evaluation This Issue Brief answers two questions: 1. WHEN is developmental evaluation a good approach? and 2. HOW can communities, evaluators, and funders engage effectively in a developmental evaluation?
• The Visual Representation of Complexity This tool defines the 16 key features of complex systems and contributes to an evolving visual language of complexity.
• 6 Major Types of Evaluation This tool helps people working on complex issues identify the right type of evaluation for the different phases of their efforts.
• What is DE Handout This two-page handout provides a quick, clear overview of what Developmental Evaluation is.
• A Mosaic A MOSAIC From a Team of Developmental Evaluators Resources and Tools for the Enriches Collaborative. A Project to Reduce the Isolation of Senior Caregivers
• Evaluating Social Innovation This explores ways that common evaluation approaches and practices constrain innovation and offer lessons about an emerging evaluation approach—developmental evaluation—which supports the adaptation that is so crucial to innovation.
• Developmental Evaluation Primer A good introduction to DE