Contribution to Change
An approach to evaluating the role of intervention in disaster recovery
Roger Few, Daniel McAvoy, Marcela Tarazona, Vivien Margaret Walden
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? 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.
Published: 2014
Pages: 120
eBook: 9781780448114
Paperback: 9781853398124
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.
| Prelims (Contents Notes on the contributors Foreword Acknowledgements) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| Part One | |||
| The approach | |||
| Emphasis on evaluating ‘contribution’ | |||
| Other defining elements of the methodology | |||
| Planning and management | |||
| Part Two | |||
| Data collection tools and methods | |||
| Overall design | |||
| Step 1: Preliminary investigation | |||
| Step 2: Quantitative methods design: household and community surveys | |||
| Step 3: Qualitative methods design: semi-structured interviews and group work | |||
| Step 4: Preparing to work with communities | |||
| Step 5: Sampling | |||
| Step 6: Field data collection | |||
| Part Three | |||
| Step 7: Preliminary analysis of quantitative data | |||
| Step 8: Preliminary analysis of qualitative data | |||
| Step 9: Developing a narrative of evidence and change | |||
| Step 10: Conclusions: Contribution to Change | |||
| Step 11: Finalization and use of the report | |||
| Back Matter (Glossary References and further resources Annexes) |
Roger Few
Roger Few is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
Daniel McAvoy
Daniel McAvoy is a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.
Marcela Tarazona
Marcela Tarazona is a Senior Consultant at Oxford Policy Management.
Vivien Margaret Walden
Vivien Walden is the global humanitarian monitoring, evaluation and learning adviser for Oxfam GB. She is currently piloting a methodology for measuring change in the lives of affected communities after a disaster response. Vivien holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in evaluation of behaviour change, with HIV in Zimbabwe as the area of research.
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