Contribution to Change: An approach to evaluating the role of intervention in disaster recovery - Hardcover

Few, Roger; McAvoy, Daniel; Tarazona, Marcela; Walden, Vivien Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185339811X ISBN 13: 9781853398117

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

This guide provides a reliable and practical method for identifying the contribution an agency makes to changes to people’s lives in the recovery period following disasters. It outlines 11 steps that take evaluators through designing quantitative and qualitative methods through to collecting field data and developing a narrative of evidence and change. The Contribution to Change tool encourages recognition of the efforts of the community itself, as well as the impact of other actors such as government or community-based groups.

As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves. Agencies must now provide evidence of impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose problems. How can we assess the difference that intervention makes? Is it ethical to consign some disaster-affected communities to control groups? How feasible is it to collect baseline data among people who have just been traumatized?

About this title

About the Authors

Roger Few is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.

Daniel McAvoy is a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.

Marcela Tarazona is a Senior Consultant at Oxford Policy Management.

Vivien Margaret Walden is the Humanitarian Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning Adviser with Oxfam GB.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185339811X
• ISBN 13: 9781853398117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120