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An Introduction to Evaluations of Complex Interventions: Making Evaluations Matter
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Introductions
Dr Stephen McGurk, Regional Director for South Asia and China, introduces Dr Sanjeev Sridharan and talks about our 40th anniversary.  Dr Sridharan touches upon the scope, what is evaluation, purpose of evaluation and understanding the system……
 
“solutions” can also create new problems; why evaluations so often not very useful, complex nature of interventions and dealing with them……..
 
Ten steps to making evaluation matter: elements of the intervention, program theory, Evidence synthesis, anticipated performance, learning, moving evaluation to policy space…..
 
Designs, methods and data: the type of learning does depend on the evaluation design, evaluation as an aid to democratic deliberations…..
        



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