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Evaluation of the project on towards the Incheon strategy to ensure the rights of persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific
No full textThe project “Towards the Incheon Strategy to Ensure the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (Phase II) was implemented between October 2019 and December 2024. The project supported the implementation of the Incheon Strategy - a part of ESCAP’s intergovernmental
commitments made in 2012 and Resolution 69/13 - for promoting disability-inclusive development in Asian and the Pacific. One of the main components of the project was to conduct a survey on the Final Review of the implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022 to track progress toward achieving the Incheon Strategy Goals through disability data collection. The purpose of this Final Review Survey was to take stock of progress made in the implementation of the Decade (2013-2022) and for charting a path forward for the coming decade, in alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Additional activities were conducted that were designed to build national capacity for disability statistics collection and reporting, as well as technical support for national disability policy and program development. This was provided at the request of national stakeholders for improving disability programs, policies and legislation
Making Evaluation Matter Writings from South Asia
No full textVoices and perspectives of evaluation approaches in South Asia!.Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Evaluation for Development Results -- 3 - Building the Field of Evaluation in South Asia -- 4 - The Importance of Context in Participatory Evaluations -- 5 - Evaluation Rights and Social Justice -- 6 - An Evaluation Practitioner's Journey with Utilization-focused Evaluation -- 7 - Enhancing the Use of Evaluation -- 8 - The Importance of Understanding Context and Structures in Programme Evaluation -- 9 - The Need for Methodological Diversityin Evaluating Complex Health Interventions -- 10 - Operationalizing the Capability Approach (CA) for Evaluating Small Projects -- 11 - Impact Evaluations -- 12 - Giving Voice -- About the Editors and Contributors -- IndexVoices and perspectives of evaluation approaches in South Asia!.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Evaluation of development account project : strengthening capacity of governments in the ESCAP, ECA and ESCWA regions to respond to the needs of youth in formulating inclusive and sustainable development policies : evaluation report
Full text linkLeading Division: SDDThis report presents an independent evaluation for the project, “Strengthening the capacity of Governments in the ESCAP, ECA and ESCWA regions to respond to the needs of youth in formulating inclusive and sustainable development policies”. This project was executed by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in partnership with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) between mid-2014 and December 2017. The project was designed to increase participation of youth in the formulation of inclusive and sustainable development policies in the ESCAP, ECA and ESCWA regions.Acronyms .................................................................................................................................. 5
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................. 6
1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................10
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE EVALUATION ......................................................................10
1.2 Purpose and Objectives ..........................................................................................10
1.3 Scope .........................................................................................................................11
2. PROJECT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES ..........................................................................11
2.1 Development Context ............................................................................................11
2.2 Problem Analysis Contributed to Project Design and Priorities ..........................12
2.3 Project Strategy.........................................................................................................13
2.4 Project Objective and Expected Accomplishments ...........................................13
2.5 Project Activities ........................................................................................................14
2.6 Monitoring and Evaluation ......................................................................................14
3. METHODOLOGY ..............................................................................................................15
3.1 Evaluation Criteria and Questions ..........................................................................15
3.2 Indicators ...................................................................................................................15
3.3 Methods of Data Collection and Analysis ............................................................15
3.4 Gender and Human Rights mainstreaming approach .......................................19
3.5 Limitations and Risks .................................................................................................20
4. FINDINGS ..........................................................................................................................20
4.1 Project Overview ......................................................................................................20
4.2 Performance Assessment ........................................................................................23
4.2.1 Relevance ...........................................................................................................23
BOX 1 Sri Lanka - Developing Toolbox for Training of Youth in Rural Areas Throught the Country .....................................................................................................25
4.2.2 Effectiveness .......................................................................................................27
BOX 2 Tunisia – Declaration for Tunisian Youth .......................................................31
BOX 3 Jordan - Youth led Proposals for Development .......................................32
4.2.3 Efficiency .............................................................................................................34
4.2.4 Sustainability .......................................................................................................37
BOX 4 Mozambique – Taking the Toolbox Forward for Policy Development with Youth Engagement ...............................................................................................38
4.2.5 Gender and Human Rights Mainstreaming ...................................................40
5. CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................42
6. RECOMMENDATIONS .....................................................................................................44
Annexes ..................................................................................................................................46
Annex 1 Terms of Reference .........................................................................................46
Annex 2 Table of Key Evaluation Questions ................................................................46
Annex 3 Budget Delivery and Financial Management Summary ...........................46
Annex 4 List of Documents Reviewed ..........................................................................46
Annex 5 List of Interviewees ...........................................................................................46
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Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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