Search Results - subject:"program theory"

Lost in motivation? The case of a Norwegian community healthcare project on ethical reflection

Nilsen, Heidi Rapp; Ringholm, Toril - In: Cogent Business & Management 6 (2019), pp. 1-15

patient satisfaction. The link in the program theory between objective and purpose is too weak to induce a better fulfilment …

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Lost in motivation? : the case of a Norwegian community healthcare project on ethical reflection

Nilsen, Heidi Rapp; Ringholm, Toril - In: Cogent business & management 6 (2019), pp. 1-15

patient satisfaction. The link in the program theory between objective and purpose is too weak to induce a better fulfilment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114321

Improving water quality with a "territorial" agri-environmental policy? Insights from the new generation AES in South-West France

Gassiat, Anne; Rousset, Sylvain; Zahm, Frédéric - 2010

paper is structured in three parts. The first one focuses on the evolution of the program-theory which underlie the French …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332754

Improving water quality with a "territorial" agri-environmental policy? : insights from the new generation AES in South-West France

Gassiat, Anne; Rousset, Sylvain; Zahm, Frédéric - 2010

paper is structured in three parts. The first one focuses on the evolution of the program-theory which underlie the French …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560496

Lapses, infidelities, and creative adaptations: Lessons from evaluation of a participatory market development approach in the Andes

Horton, Douglas; Rotondo, Emma; Paz Ybarnegaray, Rodrigo; … - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 39 (2013) C, pp. 28-41

Participatory approaches are frequently recommended for international development programs, but few have been evaluated. From 2007 to 2010 the Andean Change Alliance evaluated an agricultural research and development approach known as the “Participatory Market Chain Approach” (PMCA). Based...

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The case for including reach as a key element of program theory

Montague, Steve; Porteous, Nancy L. - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 36 (2013) 1, pp. 177-183

that an explicit description of reach in program theory and results logic depictions can improve equity in health and …

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Governability Framework for the Evaluation and Implementation of Complex Public Health Functions

Varghese, Joe; Kutty, V. Raman - In: Evaluation Review 36 (2012) 4, pp. 303-319

Background: The dominant theoretical basis of our public health practice originates from a positivist or reductionist paradigm. It fails to take into account the complexity emerging out of public healthâ€™s multiple influences originating from biological and social worlds. A deeper...

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Evaluation of a complex, multisite, multilevel grants initiative

Rollison, Julia; Hill, Gary; Yu, Ping; Murray, Stephen; … - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 35 (2012) 2, pp. 273-279

collected. This article stresses the role of program theory in guiding the evaluation. … evaluation, including the absence of common metrics for baseline, outcome data, and lack of comparison group. A unifying program … theory was required to address these challenges and synthesize the large amounts of qualitative and quantitative information …

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Advancing Systems Thinking in Evaluation: A Review of Four Publications.

Hargreaves, Margaret B.; Podems, Donna - Mathematica Policy Research - 2012

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