ORGANIZATIONS  Three major organizations that deal with program evaluation or applied research.
 

American Evaluation Association. http://www.eval.org See their 'documents', including "Guiding Principles for Evaluators" and "Program Evaluation Standards". Also see their 'lists and links' page.
 

American Statistical Association http://www.amstat.org/ and the Survey Research Methods Section (SRMS)    http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/    See especially SRMS's What is a Survey series, some of which are available on the web, as pdf files, for example, "more about mail surveys", "margin of error", and "what are focus groups".
 

Canadian Evaluation Society   http://evaluationcanada.ca/   home of Canadian Evaluation Society Project in Support of Advocacy and Professional Development   http://consultation.evaluationcanada.ca/    a project to develop answers to these questions  "How can program evaluation help my organization?"  "What exactly do program evaluators do, anyway?"  "What skills and knowledge do I need to succeed as an evaluator?"


European Evaluation Society   http://www.europeanevaluation.org/   especially see some interesting papers.

 
International Development Evaluation Association   http://www.ideas-int.org/   Their mission: "To advance and extend the practice of development evaluation by refining methods, strengthening capacity and expanding ownership."


The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology   http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/   This " is a multidisciplinary institute at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The institute was founded in 1998, with the primary goal of facilitating the development of qualitative research methods across a wide variety of academic disciplines."
 

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation   http://www.3ieimpact.org/   A new initiative.  From their founding document, "an international effort of willing partners has agreed to collaborate in lifting some of the constraints that hinder the production and use of such systematic evidence in policymaking, with attention focused on the subset of evaluation studies that measure impact."
The director posted a question for feedback here   http://www.europeanevaluation.org/news?newsId=1969486  
I think this is from the Center for Global Development   http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/13757/  
Also described in a presentation here   http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/nonie/members.html   see the presentations section.


International organization for cooperation in evaluation   http://ioce.net/   is a loose coalition of regional and national evaluation organizations from around the world that is dedicated to building leadership and capacity in developing countries, fostering the cross-fertilization of evaluation theory and practice around the world, and assisting the evaluation profession to take a more global approach to contributing to the identification and solution of world problems.


National Centre for Research Methods    http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/    especially see their publications: some literature reviews, about informed consent and imputation.


Network of Networks Impact Evaluation Initiative   http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/nonie/index.html   Nonie is a network of networks for impact evaluation comprised of the DAC Evaluation Network, The United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG), and a fourth network drawn from the regional evaluation associations. Its purpose is to foster a program of impact evaluation activities based on a common understanding of the meaning of impact evaluation and approaches to conducting impact evaluation.

Worldbank also has this group   http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/index.html    Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Has a tools page   http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/ieg_tools.html   that describes some of their methods.



PREVAL    http://www.preval.org/    specializing in Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization of projects for alleviating rural poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean


ESA Qualitative Methods Research Network   http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm   links to conference announcements, a few other things. 


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