Measuring Progress:
General Evaluation Resources

Topics Covered:

EMI Challenges of Evaluation White Paper

Foundations of Success Resource Database

Evaluation Guides & Support

Evaluation - General

EMI Challenges of Evaluation White Paper

The Challenges of Measuring Success in Collaborative Ecosystem Management - A Draft White Paper

 

Database of Key Monitoring and Evaluation Sources- For Measuring Conservation Impact.

Evaluation Guides & Support

Check Your Success: a Guide to Developing Indicators for Community-Based Environmental Projects- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Blacksburg,VA, 2001.

Evaluating Collaboratives- Ellen Taylor-Powell, Boyd Rossing, Jean Geran, University of Wisconsin - Extension, 1998.

A Guidebook for Multiparty Monitoring for Sustainable Natural Resource Management - A guidebook to help communities and their agency partners monitor activities related to ecosystem management and community-based forestry. Ecosystem Workforce Program, OR, and The Watershed Center, CA.

A Brief Guide to Evaluation- Foundations of Success, Bethesda, MD.

Handbook for planning an objectives-based evaluation on Evaluation- Infromation for data collection, Ohio State University.

Is Our Project Succeeding?- A guide to threat reduction assessment for conservation, Richard Margoluis and Nick Salafsky, Biodiversity Support Program, Washington D.C.

5-S Framework for Site Conservation - A Practitioner’s Handbook for Site Conservation Planning and Measuring Conservation Success, The Nature Conservancy, June 2000.

Program Development and Evaluation Resources- Roger Rennekamp, Department of Community and Leadership Development, the University of Kentucky.

Community Toolbox: Evaluating Community Initiatives - An evaluation model, Stephen B. Fawcett et.al., the University of Kansas.

Community Toolbox: Constituent Survey of Outcomes: Ratings of Importance- A guide to conducting surveys, Aimee Whitman

Community Toolbox : Gathering and Using Community-Level Indicators - A guide to using indicators, Aimee Whitman, the University of Kansas.

 

Evaluation - General

American Evaluation Association- Links to meetings, events, publications, and jobs.

Criteria and Indicators Toolbox - Downloadable manuals and handbooks, Center for International Forestry Research.

New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives: Concepts, Methods, and Contexts- Connell, J.P., A.C. Kubisch, L.B. Schorr, C.H. Weiss, eds., Aspen Institute: New York, 1995.

Compendium of Sustainable Development Initiatives- A worldwide directory of who is doing what in the field of sustainability indicators, the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Michael Quinn Patton interview- Author of the frequently referenced text, Utilization-Focused Evaluation, International Development Research Center, February 8, 2002.

* What Conservation Can Learn from Other Fields about Monitoring and Evaluation, Margoluis, Richard and Nick Salafsky, BioScience vol. 53, no. 2, 2003.

Sierra Nevada Wealth Index- A tool to help business leaders and policy makers understand and track the assets that sustain a region, Sierra Business Council, 2000.

Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models- A guide to using and applying logic models, E. Taylor-Powell, L. Jones, & E. Henert, University of Wisconsin-Extension, 2002.

Statistical Primer - Simple introduction to a variety of statistical methods, US EPA.

 

 

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