Advocacy evaluation – top resources
January 27, 2012 at 4:41 pm 6 comments
Today I spoke to the students of the Executive Certificate of Advocacy in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute of Geneva on advocacy evaluation. I promised the students to list the top resources I’d recommend on advocacy evaluation, here they are:
Practical Guide to Advocacy Evaluation from Innovation Network (pdf)>>
Guide on measuring advocacy and policy (pdf) from the Annie E. Casey Foundation
“A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence (pdf)” of the UK-based Overseas Development Institute describes the different approaches to evaluating policy influence.
“Advocacy Impact Evaluation” (pdf) by Michael Q. Patton – an interesting case study on influencing the US Supreme Court.
“Lessons in Evaluating Communication Campaigns: Five Case Studies” from the Harvard Family Research Project looks at evaluating advocacy campaigns ranging from gun safety to emmissions (ozone) reduction.
Entry filed under: Advocacy evaluation, Campaign evaluation.
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sjkistler | January 28, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Glenn,
Thanks for sharing!
The Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association sponsored a week of contributions on aea365 earlier this month. They shared some great tips and resources that may be of interest to others as well.
See:
http://aea365.org/blog/?s=apc+week&submit=Go
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Glenn | January 30, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Thanks Susan for posting that information: many interesting posts during that week!
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tombaker | February 15, 2012 at 4:52 pm
I really enjoyed the ‘Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy’ – http://www.hewlett.org/uploads/documents/Elusive_Craft.pdf, the paper has some interesting reflections on the way that we look to evaluate our advocacy built around the concept that evaluating advocacy is perhaps more of a craft than a science.
More of my reflection on the paper at –
http://thoughtfulcampaigner.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/evaluating-advocacy-craft-or-science/
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Glenn | February 16, 2012 at 9:04 am
Thanks Tom, a very interesting post!
Glenn
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