Title Evaluating development aid : issues, problems and solutions / Basil Edward Cracknell

Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2000

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Description 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword - Robert Chambers -- Introduction -- Part One: A Brief History Of Aid Evaluation -- A Brief History of Aid Evaluation -- Part Two: Basic Issues: Purposes, Techniques And Methods -- A Basic Issue -- Why Evaluate? For Accountability or for Lesson Learning? -- A Taxonomy of Aid Evaluation -- Organization of Evaluation Activity -- Project Cycle Management -- A Basis for Effective Monitoring and Evaluation -- Techniques and Methods of Aid Evaluation -- The Counterfactual, Effectiveness and Efficiency -- Techniques and Methods of Aid Evaluation -- Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Unintended Effects and Rating//Scoring Systems -- Part Three: Monitoring, Learning And Feedback -- The Links between Monitoring and Evaluation -- A Neglected Area -- The Role of Organizational Dynamics and Organizational Learning in Evaluation -- Feedback -- Client Orientation of Evaluation Reports -- Feedback -- Mechanisms of Feedback -- Feedback -- The Role of Management Information Systems -- Part Four: Impact, Empowerment, Stakeholder Analysis And The Participatory Approach -- Impact Evaluation -- Evaluating Sustainability -- Sectors Presenting Special Problems in Evaluation -- Technical Co-operation, Research and Development, Good Governance and Policy-Level Evaluation -- Sectors Presenting Special Problems in Evaluation -- Poverty Alleviation, Non-Government Organizations, Small States and Structural Adjustment -- International Co-operation in Aid Evaluation -- Evaluation as Viewed by the Beneficiary Stakeholders -- Empowerment and the Stakeholder Approach -- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation -- Is this the Ultimate Destination? -- Part Five: The Wider Horizon And The Way Ahead -- The Wider Horizon and the Way Ahead -- A Look at Tomorrow's Evaluation World Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Economic development projects -- Evaluation. International relief -- Evaluation. Agricultural development projects -- Evaluation. Medical asistance -- Evaluation International economic relations -- History. Economic assistance -- Evaluation. Medicine assistance -- Evaluation Medicine -- International cooperation. Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Evaluation. Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- History. LC no. 00024738 ISBN 0761994041 paperback 817036907X India 8170369088 India paperback 0761994033 U.S

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