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1 Online-Ressource (179 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781351504317
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Eight Lessons -- 1. The Results Chain -- How Evaluation Can Inform Development -- What Are the Results to Focus On? -- How Might Results Be Measured? -- How Might Evaluative Information Be Used to Boost Results? -- How Might Evaluation Lessons Be Used to Improve Development Effectiveness? -- Part I: Aim to Get Results -- 2. Let Not the Urgent Divert the Important -- The Incidence and Severity of Disasters Are on the Rise -- Disaster Responses Should Not Be a One-Off Exercise -- Prevention and Mitigation Show Great Potential -- Cost-Efficient Measures Can Enhance Preparedness -- 3. Connect Links that Strengthen Results -- Project Results and Country Results Differ -- Making Vital Links Augments Results -- Part II: Measuring Results -- 4. Composite Indicators Can Mislead -- Inconclusive Premises Affect the Validity of Indicators -- Partial Coverage Should Not Unbalance the Perspective -- Arbitrary Clustering and Weights Can Have Pernicious Effects -- Converting Ratings to Rankings Can Obscure Findings -- De Jure and De Facto Indicators Can Tell Different Stories -- 5. Go from Averages to Targeted Segments -- Targeting Poor Areas -- Targeting Issues Relevant to the Poor -- Targeting Constraints Faced by the Poor -- Changing Aid's Structure to Empower the Poor -- 6. Align Intermediate and Final Goals -- Education: From Access to Learning -- Health: Reaching Mothers and Children Is Not Straightforward -- Output-Based Aid and Outcome-Based Aid Imply Different Incentives -- Part III: Applying Lessons to Boost Results -- 7. New Challenges Call for Shifts in Direction -- Water Needs are Changing: More than Access -- Transport Needs Are Changing: More than Roads -- 8. Capture Opportunities.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781412847674
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thomas, Vinod Multilateral Banks and the Development Process : Vital Links in the Results Chain Somerset : Taylor and Francis,c2012 ISBN 9781412847674
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