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Evaluation requires careful preparation to ensure it will be of high quality, credible and useful. This chapter discusses the evaluability assessment, stakeholder analysis and engagement, development of the ToR, and selection of the evaluation consultant(s) and/or firm.

      CHAPTER 4 Key resources

      Tools for Chapter 4:

• Tool 1. Evaluation process standards for decentralized evaluation
• Tool 5 - How to conduct an evaluability assessment
• Tool 6. Evaluation terms of reference template
• Tool 7. Evaluation product comment template
• Tool 9. Stakeholder analysis template
• Tool 10. Tips for employing gender-responsive evaluation methods
• Tool 11. Management group terms of reference template
• Tool 12. Reference group terms of reference template
• Tool 13. Advantages and disadvantages of data collection methods
• Tool 14. GERAAS evaluation report quality assessment checklist

 Key websites and documents

• UN Women:
  • UN Women Evaluation Policy
  • UN Women GATE
  • United Nations System-wide Action Plan
  • Guide for the evaluation of programmes and projects with a gender, human rights and intercultural perspective
  • UN Women Contracting Policies and Procedures
  • Programme and Operations Manual, Chapter 5 Evaluation
  • Evaluation Consultants Agreement Form
  • UN Women gender and evaluation consultant database
  • UN Women virtual knowledge centre to end violence against women and girls

• United Nations Evaluation Group:
  • Ethical Guidelines
  • Code of Conduct
  • Integrating human rights and gender equality in evaluations
  • Norms for Evaluation in the UN System
  • Standards for Evaluation in the UN System
  • Guidance on Impact Evaluation
  • United Nations System Wide Action Plan Evaluation Performance Indicator
    
• Women’s empowerment framework
• World Bank compilation of gender analysis frameworks
• World Health Organization (WHO) ethical and safety recommendations for research
• Brisolara S, Seigart D, SenGupta S (eds), Feminist Evaluation and Research, New York:  Guilford Publications.
• Coughlan AT, Preskill H, Catsambas TT, “An overview of appreciative inquiry in evaluation”, New Directions for Evaluation, Issue 100, 2003, pp. 5-22.
• Davies R, Dart J, ‘The most significant change (MSC) technique: A guide to its use’, United Kingdom and Australia, April 2005. Graham, A., Powell, M., Taylor, N., Anderson, D. & Fitzgerald, R. (2013).
• Ethical Research Involving Children. Florence: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti.
• Fetterman DM, Wandersman A, Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice, New York:  Guilford Publications, 2005.
• Patton MQ, Utilization-focused Evaluation, Sage Publications, 2008.