Monitoring, Evaluating, and Improving - Taddesse, Samuel

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Résumé :
Since the end of World War II, multilateral organizations, bilateral donors, and national governments have spent billions of dollars each year to address and resolve development challenges for better human outcomes. However, many of these challenges continue to recur. Dr. Samuel Taddesse, who has decades of experience designing, implementing and evaluating aid programs throughout the world, argues that development experts and policy makers should focus on understanding the nature and magnitude of the challenges and its causes and effects before embarking on designing and implementing interventions to resolve the problem. In Monitoring, Evaluating, and Improving, he highlights the building blocks for a robust approach to managing development results and outcomes. He recommends understanding the root causes of challenges, which requires involving stakeholders who can help brainstorm the best course of action. The book is also available in eBook format....

Biographie:
Dr. Samuel Taddesse graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School in 1975, with a Ph.D. in applied economics and finance. He has worked as an assistant professor of finance at the City University of New York, as a senior economist in the Banking Studies Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and as District Manager and a divestiture planner and organization developer with AT&T. Since 1989, he has worked with numerous consulting firms to design, implement, and evaluate a range of programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the United Nations, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, and the European Union.Over the past seven years, he worked in Ethiopia with teams that provided technical assistance on tax policy formulation, tax administration, and anti-corruption. He is also the author of Monitoring, Evaluating, and Improving: An Evidence-Based Approach to Achieving Development Results that Matter! and Social Accountability in Ethiopia: Establishing Collaborative Relationships between Citizens and the State.

Sommaire:
Since the end of World War II, multilateral organizations, bilateral donors, and national governments have spent billions of dollars each year to address and resolve development challenges for better human outcomes. However, many of these challenges continue to recur. Dr. Samuel Taddesse, who has decades of experience designing, implementing and evaluating aid programs throughout the world, argues that development experts and policy makers should focus on understanding the nature and magnitude of the challenges and its causes and effects before embarking on designing and implementing interventions to resolve the problem. In Monitoring, Evaluating, and Improving, he highlights the building blocks for a robust approach to managing development results and outcomes. He recommends understanding the root causes of challenges, which requires involving stakeholders who can help brainstorm the best course of action. The book is also available in eBook format....