General Technical Documents

Digital Data Callection

Data Visualization Introduction Outline: 

• Waht is digital data Collection? 
• The advantages of Digital Data Collection
• Challenges of Digital Data Collection
• Guide to Digital Data Collection
• Digital Data Collection Steps
• Top Open-Source Data Collection Tools and Research
• Case Studies 

Grain Huller for Rice, Spelt Wheat, Quinoa, and Millet

Allen Dong and Roger Edberg, I-Tech, Public domain, 1989.

Short grain rice can be hulled at a rate of 200 g/min.  The percentage of rice hulled varies from 75 to 99% depending on the rice cultivars, the spacing between the stationary rubber disk and the rotating abrasive disk, and uniformit of spacing between the disks.

Standards for Prosthetics and Orthotics, Part 1: Standards

This document provides a set of standards and a manual for implementation to support countries in developing or improving high-quality, affordable prosthetics and orthotics services. It brings promise, by ensuring that everyone in need, everywhere, has access to prostheses and orthoses: that no one is left behind. Its aim is to ensure that prosthetics and orthotics services are people-centred and responsive to every individual’s personal and environmental needs.

Implementation of these standards will support Member States in fulfilling their obligations under the CRPD (8) and in meeting the SDGs (12), in particular Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. With these standards, any government can develop national policies, plans and programmes for prosthetics and orthotics services of the highest standard.

10 USAID Alternatives

Standards for Prosthetics and Orthotics, Part 2: Implementation Manual

WHO, in partnership with the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has prepared prosthetics and orthotics standards to guide Member States in improving access to high-quality, affordable prosthetics and orthotics services, presented in Part 1 of this publication. For more detailed instructions on “what, why, how, who and when” for each standard, WHO also prepared this implementation manual. The main purpose of the manual is to support Member States in analysing the situation of prosthetics and orthotics services in their countries, which, in turn, helps setting priorities for implementation of the standards. The manual provides advice on planning, implementing, managing and developing or improving prosthetics and orthotics services to meet the proposed standards. It is designed to stimulate discussion on the wide range of issues to be considered in preparing policies and strategic plans and establishing benchmarks for services. It promotes planning, goal-setting, implementation and monitoring of services as a joint effort of governments and national stakeholders

Design and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Standards

High quality monitoring, review, evaluation, and learning (MEL) ensures investments have a credible basis and can be used to make timely and important strategic and tactical programming decisions. It supports accountability, learning and, when implemented well, improves program effectiveness and efficiency. The Standards provide clarity to DFAT staff and implementing partners over what a quality Design and MEL product and process is.

How to Develop Actionable Recommendations

This Guideline provides practical guidance on content and process issues around developing actionable recommendations.

A critical component of the National Evaluation System (NES) is supporting evaluation use. This is done through the development of recommendations in the evaluation report which are implemented through the improvement plan mechanism. The improvement plan is informed by the set of evaluation recommendations, which are developed recommendations by an independent evaluator.

Developed by the custodian departments and stakeholders, the improvement plan outlines strategies for improvement, based on recommendations by an independent evaluator and specifies improvement objectives, outputs, activities, time frames and responsible individuals. The likelihood of implementation of the improvement plan or by implication, the use of the evaluation, hinges largely on the quality of evaluation recommendations and the process for developing them.

The evaluation of the NES undertaken in 2016/17 indicated effective use of evaluation results in government being one of the biggest challenges. Although great progress has been made in entrenching evaluations in government, there have been missed opportunities for using evaluations strategically to support planning, policymaking and budgeting processes.

Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators

Our evaluation experiences matter – to ourselves and to those we engage with during the evaluation. But to what extent do these evaluations contribute to changing the lives of the people we work with? To what extent are evaluations useful? Can the findings be used and can evaluations be influential in bringing about change? What are the consequences of the decisions we make around an evaluation? Making evaluations matter to the primary intended users of development programmes or initiatives and other key stakeholders is at the heart of this document.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation

This resource is designed to help groups working on community led approaches to climate change and energy conduct their own Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). It aims to provide an accessible background to the principles of M&E, together with selected links to resources and approaches that may be useful for your group.

Background

These resources were trialled at two workshops that took place in June 2013, and were attended by representatives from 25 different community groups working on energy and climate change. The workshops built on interviews with 10 community groups; a wider survey on M&E experiences and needs; and the authors own experiences of M&E through research and practical experience with and in community groups. The selection of resources below responds to an identified dearth of comparable evidence across low carbon/community energy movements. While the aim is to combine ease of use with the production of useful outcomes, the list of resources is by no means exhaustive, as resources and methods are constantly evolving.

Using Jack Beans to Overcome the “Hurricane of Hunger” Across Sub-Saharan Africa - 2024-09-01

This publication shares experiences about the uses of jack bean (Canavaial ensiformis) from the knowledgable green manure cover crop expert, Roland Bunch.