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Terms such as monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment and performance assessment describe complex processes. These separate processes are hard to define because they interact with each other. These processes are also developing and changing.
Trends in international development evaluation: | Area | Trends | | Evaluative practices | Becoming more: - aware of evaluation requirements at the design stage (rather than the end of a project/programme)
- involving of the wider range of stakeholders
- concerned with reconciling qualitative and quantitative approaches
- interested in how to quantify qualitative data
- impact orientated
- utilisation focused
- aware of the political sensitivities in evaluation concerned about how to communicate and use the results of evaluation exercises effectively
| | Monitoring | Becoming more: - participatory, including users of the findings
- participatory in terms of listening to the perceptions of intended beneficiaries
- related to established early baselines
- concerned with impact
| | Evaluation | - More external feedback sought earlier in the project/programme cycle
- More concern with evaluating results rather than inputs
- More participatory and yet…
- More concern over the independence of evaluation
| | Impact Assessment | Becoming more: - concerned about impact on poverty and other international development targets
- committed to reconciling qualitative data with quantitative data
- participatory by involving implementers and beneficiaries in the assessment
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