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Evaluating NGOs in International Water Development

Author : Stephanie Lu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating NGOs in International Water Development written by Stephanie Lu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the introduction of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, the level of sophistication required to measure the impact of international development has grown. However, evidence suggests that international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been slow to invest in development evaluation; instead of using evidence-based tools to enhance performance, such as logic models or benchmarks, NGOs engage in activities to demonstrate their good work (e.g., report writing, monitoring progress). In light of the current biophysical, socioeconomic, political, and human challenges that make the water-health nexus a “wicked problem,” this thesis addresses the knowledge gap in our understanding of factors that influence the measurable success of an NGO in water-based development. Using a case study design, evaluation frameworks were applied in the context of international water development. An evaluability assessment and process evaluation of the case study informed the creation of low cost evaluation tools that can be adapted and applied to other small NGOs with little or no formal evaluation training. By documenting the evaluation experience, facilitators and barriers to conducting an evaluation and embedding evaluative thinking in an NGO were also identified. As a whole, this thesis aimed to counteract the prioritization of individual projects with short-term impact. Findings support the need for theoretically grounded evaluations at the organizational level in order to address the complexity of global water needs, the diversity of individuals who lack access, civil society organizations and the constraints under which they work, and the work that remains to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”.

The Global Water Crisis

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Global Water Crisis written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bridging Troubled Waters

Author : George Keith Pitman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821351406
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Bridging Troubled Waters written by George Keith Pitman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, 166 million people in 18 countries lack access to adequate water resources, and it is estimated that by 2025, the number of people affected will increase to approximately three billion or 40 per cent of the worlds population. There is now an international consensus that the severity of the problem requires a strategic approach that emphasises the equitable and sustainable management of water resources. This report examines the implementation of the World Banks 1993 Water Resources Management policy and evaluates the effectiveness of strategies adopted which seek to address identified problems. It also makes recommendations for improving World Bank policy and strategy in the water sector.

Community Water Supply in Developing Countries

Author : Daniel M. Dworkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Community Water Supply in Developing Countries written by Daniel M. Dworkin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evaluation and Development

Author : Osvaldo N. Feinstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351323903
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Evaluation and Development written by Osvaldo N. Feinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partnership is of growing importance in development work. Partnerships among state, private business, and civil society organizations are increasingly used to deliver the goods and services required for balanced growth and poverty reduction. Aid activities have shifted from a project focus to a more strategic and holistic focus on programs, sectors, and policies. With this new orientation, partnerships are often essential to deal with the added complexity and the larger number of agencies, groups, and stakeholders involved.The Partnership Dimension takes on the issues in a series of chapters divided into two general parts: Part 1, "Foundations of Partnership and Their Evaluation," covers the types of development partnership and critical issues involved, and Part 2, "Partnerships in Practice," then illustrates the aspects and lessons of partnership experience through a series of case studies. Many of the studies focus on the benefits of partnerships between institutions of government and civil society. Benefits include effective knowledge transfer, greater cross-national cooperation, the creation of new networks and capacity, and penetration of new markets. Private firms use partnerships with competitors to learn or reduce risk.There is much to learn about when, where, and how best to use partnerships, and, in particular, partnerships that involve less traditional combinations of actors, such as global partnerships for public policy, country-focused aid partnerships, private sector partnerships for knowledge creation, and partnerships for community development involving business, nongovernmental organizations, and government.Relatively little is known about the costs and benefits, and the risks and rewards, of different types of partnerships, or about how best to conduct partnerships for different purposes. This is why the current volume in the World Bank series is relevant for both development practitioners and policy analysts.

Evaluating Environment in International Development

Author : Juha I. Uitto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000364100
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Environment in International Development written by Juha I. Uitto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries. Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is an essential tool for providing evidence for decision-makers. Moving beyond projects and programmes, it explores normative work on the environment as well as environmental consequences of economic and social development efforts. This new edition reflects on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals and considers how they have influenced efforts in a wide range of countries and what the implications are for evaluation. It also explores ways in which Big Data and geospatial approaches might be utilized. Significantly updated throughout to reflect recent developments in climate change research, and on the implications of the 2020 pandemic, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment studies, development studies, international relations, sustainable development and evaluation, as well as practitioners in international organizations and development and environmental NGOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003094821, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Center-commissioned external review of International Water Management Institute: Consolidated report, 19-29 May 2003

Author : Wright, A.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290905409
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Center-commissioned external review of International Water Management Institute: Consolidated report, 19-29 May 2003 written by Wright, A. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Centre Commissioned External Review (CCER) of the International Water Management Institute, Headquarters (IWMI-HQ) was carried out in Colombo in the period 20–28 May 2003. This came immediately after the reviews of the Regional Offices (Africa–by Prof. Alaphia Wright, Asia–by Prof. A. Vaidyanathan, and South East Asia–by Dr. Beatriz P. Del Rosario). The review was undertaken within the context of the (then) ongoing IWMI review and strategic planning process for future priority setting.

The United Nations World Water Development Report

Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9230010049
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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External Evaluation of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation Trust Fund: Synthesis report

Author : Stein-Erik Kruse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis External Evaluation of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation Trust Fund: Synthesis report by : Stein-Erik Kruse

Download or read book External Evaluation of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation Trust Fund: Synthesis report written by Stein-Erik Kruse and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United Nations World Water Development Report

Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231005766
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Toward Country-led Development

Author : John Eriksson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821356692
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Toward Country-led Development written by John Eriksson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), a World Bank aid policy approach, has become an important influence on the global development agenda since its launch in 1999. It is based on four principles: a long-term holistic development framework; results orientation; country ownership; and country led-partnership. This report contains findings from five case study evaluations of CDF pilot implementation in Bolivia, Ghana, Romania, Uganda and Vietnam, and from a non-CDF pilot study in Burkina Faso chosen as a control. A World Bank synthesis evaluation report on the CDF is also available (ISBN 0821356437).

Water for People, Water for Life

Author : World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations)
Publisher : Unesco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Water for People, Water for Life written by World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations) and published by Unesco. This book was released on 2003 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's freshwater resources are coming under growing pressure through such environmental hazards as human waste, urbanization, industrialization, and pesticides. The problems are exacerbated through drought in many parts of the world. The improvement of the water quality itself and access to it have been major concerns for politicians and development agencies for over a decade. First officially formulated at the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, they have been restated or expanded since then. The UN Millennium Declaration of 2000 transformed general guidelines into specific targets. The international community pledged "to halve by 2015 the proportion of people who are unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking water" and "to stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources, by developing water management strategies at the regional, national and local levels, which promote both equitable access and adequate supplies." Thus, ten years after Rio it is time to take stock. Based on the collective inputs of 23 United Nations agencies and convention secretariats, this Report offers a global overview of the state of the world's freshwater resources. It is part of an on-going assessment process to develop policies and help with their implementation as well as to measure any progress towards achieving sustainable use of water resources. Generously illustrated with more than 25 full-color global maps and numerous figures, the report reviews progress and trends and presents seven pilot case studies of river basins representing various social, economic and environmental settings: Lake Titicaca (Bolivia, Peru); Senegal river basin (Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea); Seine Normandy (France); Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe (Estonia, Russia); Ruhuna basin (Sri Lanka); Greater Tokyo region (Japan); and Chao Phraya (Thailand). It assesses progress in 11 challenge areas, including health, food, environment, shared water resources, cities, industry, energy, risk management, knowledge, valuing water and governance. Proposing methodologies and indicators for measuring sustainability, it lays the foundations for regular, system-wide monitoring and reporting by the UN, together with the development of standardized methodologies and data. With its comprehensive maps, glossary, references and coverage of a broad range of themes and examples of real-world river basins, the UN World Water Development Report will no doubt prove to be a most valuable reference work. Visit the United Nation's Water Portal for more information on the report and on the International Year of Freshwater 2003.

Stakeholders

Author : Ian Smillie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134188536
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Stakeholders written by Ian Smillie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study from the OECD Development Centre presents a comprehensive review by independent experts of the relationships and division of responsibility between the 22 member governments of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and NGOs from these donor countries, working in international development. Additional chapters cover the roles of the European Union and the World Bank. Among other themes, the book looks at two very significant issues. First, at the way in which an overemphasis on evaluation may be leading NGOs to focus purely on measuring their output, thus choosing activities which are easily accountable. Second, it examines the important impacts of the evolution in the funding relationship between governments and NGOs - from matching grants to contracts - where NGOs must increasingly compete for contracts.

Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector

Author : Asit K. Biswas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540372245
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector written by Asit K. Biswas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first pioneering study to assess the impacts of the megaconferences on water policies, programmes and projects at global, regional and national levels. The results are bleak. The evaluation indicated that except for the UN Water Conference, held in Argentina in 1977, the impacts of the subsequent megaconferences have been at best marginal in terms of knowledge generation and synthesis, poverty alleviation, and/or environmental conservation.

GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation

Author : Global Environment Facility. Evaluation Office
Publisher : GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN 13 : 1933992085
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation written by Global Environment Facility. Evaluation Office and published by GEF Evaluation Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evaluation of five FAO projects funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in Cameroon, Chad, Mali and the Niger

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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251357285
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Evaluation of five FAO projects funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in Cameroon, Chad, Mali and the Niger written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation seeks to contribute to organization-wide learning by drawing lessons from the multi-year funded resilience projects implemented in the Sahel and Cameroon and making recommendations for future programming. FAO intervened in these countries to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable households affected by the crisis in the Sahel through promoting sustainable livelihood. The evaluation found that the projects contributed to an improvement in animal and agricultural production and strengthened social cohesion among the different communities. The evaluation also found that a multi-year funding mechanism is flexible and allows a transition from a humanitarian to a development approach if used efficiently. In its future programming, FAO should promote an integrated approach, targeting the same beneficiaries and enabling them to engage in productive activities and sustainable natural resource management. In fragile and emergency contexts, FAO should adapt its tools and procedures for more flexibility and adaptive management.

The United Nations World Water Development Report

Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231004344
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations World Water Development Report written by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is a finite and non-substitutable resource. As the foundation of life, societies and economies, it carries multiple values and benefits. But unlike most other natural resources, it has proven extremely difficult to determine its true 'value'. The 2021 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report, titled "Valuing Water" assesses the current status of and challenges to the valuation of water across different sectors and perspectives and identifies ways in which valuation can be promoted as a tool to help improve its management and achieve global sustainable development.