J. Michael Bamberger & Jozef Leonardus Vaessen 
Dealing With Complexity in Development Evaluation [EPUB ebook] 
A Practical Approach

Part 1: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Framework
Chapter 1: Complexity in Development Evaluation: The Framework of the Book — Michael Bamberger, Jos Vaessen, and Estelle Raimondo
Chapter 2: Toward More Complexity-Responsive Evaluations: Overview and Challenges — Estelle Raimondo, Jos Vaessen, and Michael Bamberger
Chapter 3: Management of Complexity-Responsive Evaluations — Michael Bamberger
Part 2: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: Methodological Approaches
Chapter 4: Impact Evaluation Approaches and Complexity — Jos Vaessen, Estelle Raimondo, and Michael Bamberger
Chapter 5: Understanding What is Being Evaluated: Theory-Based Evaluation — Frans L. Leeuw
Chapter 6: Five Practical Evaluation Problems to Which TBE Can Contribute — Frans L. Leeuw
Chapter 7: Dealing with Complexity by Unpacking and Reassembling Elements of a Complex Program — Michael Bamberger, Estelle Raimondo, and Jos Vaessen
Chapter 8: The Importance of a Mixed Methods Approach for Evaluating Complexity — Michael Bamberger
Part 3: Emerging Data and Innovative Techniques to Deal with Complexity in Development Evaluation
Chapter 9: Complexity in Review and Synthesis Studies — Jos Vaessen
Chapter 10: Emergent Technologies and Creative Use of Multiple Sources of Information — Susan van den Braak, Sunil Choenni, and Michael Bamberger
Chapter 11: Applying Emergent Technologies to Complex Program Evaluation From the INGO Perspective — Kerry Bruce and Alison E. Koler
Chapter 12: The Evaluation of Complex Development Interventions in the Age of Big Data — Emmanuel Letouzé, Ana Areias, and Sally Jackson
Part 4: Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: The Institutional Challenges
Chapter 13: Dealing with Institutional Complexity: Implications for Evaluation Design, Process, and Use — Estelle Raimondo
Chapter 14: Gender Equality in Development Evaluation: The Intersection of Complexities — Estelle Raimondo and Michael Bamberger
Part 5: Complexity of Evaluation in Practice: Case Studies
Chapter 15: A Case Study in Complexity: Evaluating a Long-Term Effort to Prevent Gender-Based Violence in El Salvador — Allison R. Davis and Melida Guevera
Chapter 16: Microcredit and Women′s Empowerment: Complexity in Systematic Review — Jos Vaessen, Ana Rivas and Frans L. Leeuw
Chapter 17: Evaluation of Coordination Against Trafficking in Persons: A Case Study of a Complexity-Responsive Evaluation — Kim Forss
Chapter 18: Complexity from the Perspective of Philanthropic Foundations and Their Evaluation Practices — Leny van Oijen
Chapter 19: Evaluating General Budget Support — Antonie de Kemp and Geske Dijkstra
Chapter 20: Dealing with Complexity in a Realist Synthesis: Community Accountability and Empowerment Initiatives — Gill Westhorp, Bill Walker, and Patricia Rogers
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Estelle Raimondo is a Research Associate and a Ph.D. candidate at the George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration where she specializes in development evaluation. Prior to joining GWU, Estelle served as an Associate Evaluation Specialist for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In this capacity, she conducted a number of evaluations and policy reviews especially in Africa and worked closely with the United Nations Evaluation Group on integrating gender into evaluation practice. Over the last five years or so, Estelle has worked on a number of evaluation and research assignments for a range of organizations (e.g., the World Bank, the Independent Evaluation Group, UNEG, the Polish Government, the NSF, The GW Regulatory Center). Her current research focuses on how monitoring and evaluation can contribute to organizational and strategic change in international development agencies. She is exploring issues of evaluation culture, knowledge brokering and result-based management’s adequacy for organizational learning. Estelle is also researching how to adequately combine a range of methodologies stemming from different fields (e.g., quasi-experimental design, Case-based methods and systems-thinking) to address complex issues, such as gender equality. Estelle graduated summa cum laude from the Paris School of International Affairs with an M.A. in International Economic Policy. She also holds a Master of International Affairs in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she studied as a Fulbright scholar.