Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice

By H. White. 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation (2016, background): “Multi-disciplinary perspectives should not only inform theories of change and related intervention designs, they can also help to develop more appropriate evaluation strategies (White 2009).”
A Systematic Review of Theory-Driven Evaluation Practice From 1990 to 2009 (2011, methodology): “…analyzing, and reanalyzing the major theoretical descriptions and prescriptions for commonalities as put forth by prominent theorists (e.g., Chen, 1990, 2005a; Donaldson, 2003, 2007; Lipsey et al., 2004; Rogers, 2000, 2007; Rogers et al., 2000; Weiss, 1997a, 1997b, 1998, 2000; 2004a; White, 2009).”
Insight, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Opportunities for Advancing Collaborative Adaptive Management (CAM): Integrating Experience and Practice Results Chains: a Tool for Conservation Action Design, Management, and Evaluation (2013, background): “Many authors describe creating results chains as the essential first step in conducting evaluations (White 2009).”
The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services (2017, unknown): “Section 2 begins with a fresh look at how PES is thought to induce positive environmental and socio-economic outcomes (i.e., a theory of change), highlighting which PES design features and implementation contexts are key to such outcomes (White, 2009).”
The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: A systematic review (2018, background): “, the second question is critical in unravelling the causal mechanisms of impact and identifying barriers and enablers of CS effectiveness, taking into account how the context mediates between the implementation processes and the final outcomes (Weiss 1997, Pawson and Tilley 2004, White 2009).”
Farmer Field Schools for Improving Farming Practices and Farmer Outcomes: A Systematic Review (2014, methodology): “We used a hypothesised programme theory of change (White, 2009) as the framework for integrating the evidence.”
A Contribution to Current Debates in Impact Evaluation (2010, background): “The job of a quality impact evaluation is to trace the causal chain through from inputs to outcomes and impacts, and different approaches most applicable to analysing different parts of it (see White, 2009, for an elaboration of the approach).”
Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “…policy impacts and require supporting information in order to establish causal relationships, i.e., the extent to which observed changes in indicators such as poverty rates or consumption are attributable to the policy in question as opposed to other drivers of change (Shaffer, 2013; White, 2009).”
The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (2013, unknown): “These needs resonate with what others (for example, White, 2009) have described as a ‘theory-based’ approach to evaluation, advocated by its supporters for evaluating voice and accountability interventions because of its stress on ‘explain[ing] the implicit assumptions, logic and mechanisms behind…”
Narrative approaches to systematic review and synthesis of evidence for international development policy and practice (2012, background): “To answer questions about the effectiveness of interventions, studies should be able to demonstrate causality through attribution analysis for which experimental and quasiexperimental studies are generally considered most appropriate (White 2009).”