This guidebook for evaluators and other evaluation stakeholders provides an introductory overview of a range of methods that have been selected for their actual and potential use in the field of international development evaluation. For each method, a detailed guidance note presents the method's...

This paper explores the accessibility of rural credit for the case of a rural bank in northern Nicaragua. Both the point of view of the potential client and the bank are addressed. It is illustrated that local networks of information and recommendation are important low-cost screening mechanisms...

We study how 22 donors allocate their bilateral aid among 147 recipient countries over the 1970- 2004 period to investigate whether changes in the international aid architecture?at the international and country level?have led to changes in behavior. We find that after the fall of the Berlin...

Access and outreach are two sides of the same coin that currently receive much attention in the literature. This paper explores the accessibility of rural credit for the case of a rural bank in Northern Nicaragua. Both the point of view of the potential client and the bank are addressed. It is...

Impact studies at the level of the beneficiary are not very common in the case of small-scale development projects. In this paper we will present the case of an evaluation study on a training project in Low External Input Agriculture in Guatemala. The evaluation design is based on a simple...

At a time when technological innovations are making our world increasingly smaller and our production systems are becoming increasingly more efficient, the benefits of economic growth and development as a whole have not been able to reach all of society. Indeed, many poor countries,...

In mid term program evaluations evaluators are often confronted with the double task of retrospectively judging the program's merit and worth while at the same time advising decision makers concerning future adjustments in courses of action. In such cases, it can be argued that it is...