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How well are aid agencies evaluating programs? An assessment of the quality of global health evaluations

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  • Julia Raifman
  • Felix Lam
  • Janeen Madan Keller
  • Alexander Radunsky
  • William Savedoff

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Evaluations are key to learning and accountability. We assessed the methodological quality of 37 randomly selected programme evaluations from 5 major global health funders. Two researchers rated each evaluation for relevance, validity, and reliability and met to resolve discrepancies. Most evaluations asked questions relevant to the health programme, but less than 40 per cent of impact evaluations and less than 10 per cent of performance evaluations used relevant data, followed accepted social science methods for sampling, or had high analytical validity and reliability. There is a need to improve the methodological quality of programme evaluations.

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  • Julia Raifman & Felix Lam & Janeen Madan Keller & Alexander Radunsky & William Savedoff, 2018. "How well are aid agencies evaluating programs? An assessment of the quality of global health evaluations," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 277-289, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevef:v:10:y:2018:i:2:p:277-289
    DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2018.1452779
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    1. Richard Manning & Ian Goldman & Gonzalo Hernández Licona, 2020. "The impact of impact evaluation: Are impact evaluation and impact evaluation synthesis contributing to evidence generation and use in low- and middle-income countries?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-20, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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