The Evaluation Capacity Development Group A New Nonprofit Organization
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Last February, Craig Russon served as a resource person at The World Bank’s Global Grantmaking for Small Grants Workshop (Russon, 2005). During his presentation on tracking results and measuring effectiveness, he advanced the idea that the evaluation needs of projects funded by small grants and those funded by large grants are essentially the same in that they both seek to answer two fundamental questions: “Are we doing the right things?”, and “Are we doing things right?”
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