LIDC Short Course on Evaluation for Development Programmes
The course was held in London on 9-13 November 2015.
The purpose of this intensive short course was to provide participants with a comprehensive background in evaluation methods for development programmes. The course was for development professionals, academics and students with advanced-level students who wished to gain better understanding of the terminology and fundamentals of evaluation methods.
Course content
The five-day short course will cover the following topics:
- What is evaluation? Why evaluate? What questions do you want to answer?
- Different questions and research strategies and specific methods for evaluating impact
- Theory of change and the counterfactual
- Introduction to systematic reviews
- Experimental design methods (including randomised control trials)
- Quasi-experimental designs (including an introduction to data analysis)
- Process evaluation, qualitative and mixed methods for impact evaluation
- Implementation of good impact evaluations
- The politics of fieldwork
- Knowledge synthesis and translation: studying the impact of impact evaluations, systematic reviews and other evidence in policymaking and decision making
- Economic appraisals (cost-benefit)
- Ethics and evaluation