Final Paper

The final paper for the course will be an evaluation design for the program or project of your choice. It can be a program or project on which you have worked, or one about which you would like to learn. The paper should consist of two parts:

1. An evaluation design including objectives, outcomes, performance measures, data sources, data collection methods, a timetable and a rough indication of cost. (This should use the format of a terms of reference as used in the IAEA.)

2. An essay about the problems that you would expect to encounter in implementing the evaluation and how you would propose to overcome them.

You should prepare the paper according to the following time schedule:

March 4. Forward the name of the program or project with a brief description of what it involves.
April 8. First draft of the first part of the evaluation. This will permit the Professor to comment on your design.
May 8. Final paper due.

Examples of papers from 2007 include:

Angela Bruno, COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (CBFMP) IN THE PHILIPPINES
Sandra Guzman, An Evaluation Design for Timap for Justice, Sierra Leone
Alka Upadhyaya, Evaluation Design of District poverty Initiative Program of Madhya Pradesh Funded by World Bank
Zhaoming Zeng, Xiamen Port Project

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