October 25, 2012
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What do DFID wonks think of Oxfam's attempt to measure its effectiveness?
October 24, 2012
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When we (rigorously) measure effectiveness, what do we find? Initial results from an Oxfam experiment.
October 10, 2012
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Can we demonstrate effectiveness without bankrupting our NGO and/or becoming a randomista?
September 9, 2011
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So where have we got to on Value for Money, Results etc?
March 17, 2011
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‘Stuff happens’: the risks of a results agenda. Guest post from Rosalind Eyben
March 15, 2011
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Positive deviance: spotting the hidden innovations in development work
February 8, 2011
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Is the aid industry’s audit culture becoming a threat to accountability?
October 12, 2010
I’m a big fan of Rosalind Eyben, of IDS, so got her permission to cut and paste her note of a meeting she organized recently while I was wandering around Ethiopia. It brought together some 70 development practitioners and researchers worried about the current trend for funding organisations to support only those programmes designed to deliver easily measurable results. Here
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