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A Framework for Financial Benefit-Cost Analysis of Individual Development Accounts at the Experimental Site of the American Dream Demonstration 2000 — The American Dream Demonstration is an evaluation of whether Individual Development Accounts are likely to achieve their intended purposes cost-effectively.
A Framework for Using Cost-Benefit Analysis in Making the Case for Software Upgrade 2012 — This paper proposes using an economical model in making the case for software upgrade at organizations in general and at educational institutions in particular. Cost-benefit Analysis (CBA) is a model widely used in economics by various organizations to select among alternatives and to justify making certain investments.
A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results 2012, World Bank — Needs assessments support this earliest phase of project development with proven approaches to gathering information and making justifi able decisions. This book, in turn, is your guide to assessing needs and then making essential decisions about what to do next. You will fi nd that this book— fi lled with practical strategies, tools, and guides—covers both large-scale, formal needs assessments and less-formal assessments that guide daily decisions.
A Guide to Planning and Conducting Program Evaluation 2009 — The document has been arranged to provide the user with information to produce an evaluation plan with sufficient detail to subsequently conduct an evaluation that is useful and credible.
Alternate Models of Needs. Assessment: Selecting the. Right One for Your Organization 2000 — Needs assessment is the formal process of identifying needs as gaps between current and desired results, placing those needs in priority order based on the cost to meet each need versus the cost for ignoring it, and selecting the most important needs (problems or opportunities) for reduction or elimination [Kaufman 1992, 1998]
A multiple account framework for cost–benefit analysis2003 — The paper presents a spreadsheet-based multiple account approach to cost-benefit analysis which incorporates all the usual concerns of cost-benefit analysts such as shadow-pricing to account for market failure, distribution of net benefits, sensitivity and risk analysis, cost of public funds, and environmental effects. The approach offers a number of advantages to both analysts and decisionmakers, including transparency, a check on internal consistency and a detailed summary of project net benefits disaggregated by stakeholder group.
Benefit-Cost Analysis: General Methods and Approach 2010 — This report describes the purpose, approach, methods and assumptions that are part of this kind of appraisal. This report also contains a useful bibliography of reference materials relating to the general topic of benefit-cost analysis and to specific aspects of project evaluation.
Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide: Regulatory Proposals 2007 — The Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide is provided for the use of federal departments and agencies as they perform cost-benefit analysis to support regulatory decisions. The guide incorporates the evolution of regulatory policy and developments in the analysis of the impacts of regulations in Canada and elsewhere over the past decade.
Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries: A General Framework with Applications for Education 2012 — we discuss the issues surrounding many of these assumptions, such as what discount rate to use or whether to include cash transfers as program costs, and make recommendations on which assumptions might be reasonable given the perspective of a policymaker allocating resources between different projects.
Conducting a community needs assessment 2013 Ontario — This report was researched and written to address the question: According to the literature, what are best practices (e.g. components, methods, targeting strategies, questions asked, planning) for conducting community assessments in a social service context? see http://www.excellenceforchildandyouth.ca/
Cost–benefit analysis 2014 Australia — A CBA involves a systematic evaluation of the impacts of a regulatory proposal, accounting for all the effects on the community and economy, not just the immediate or direct effects, financial effects or effects on one group. It emphasises, to the extent possible, valuing the gains and losses from a regulatory proposal in monetary terms.
COST - EFFECTIVENESS AND COST - BENEFIT ANALYSIS 2010 — Both cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) are useful tools for program evaluation. Cost-effectiveness analysis is a technique that relates the costs of a program to its key outcomes or benefits. Cost-benefit analysis takes that process one step further, attempting to compare costs with the dollar value of all (or most) of a program’s many benefits.
Discussion of Key Resource Allocation Policy Issues in Louisiana 2008 — The purpose of this brief, in the context of ongoing consultation from the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI) to the Louisiana Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD), is to explore policy issues related to resource allocation for people with developmental disabilities in Louisiana. Two particular issues are explored. The first pertains to the relative merits of prospective versus retrospective individual budgeting. The second refers to the range of service settings or categories to which individual budget models can be applied.
Environmental Scan and Literature Review - Human Services 2007 — PwID/DD quality supports - Alberta study
Guidance for the design of qualitative case study evaluation 2012 — This short document provides high-level guidance notes on designing and undertaking qualitative case study research and speculates on its potential application in evaluating regional development projects in Europe.
Guidelines for Public Expenditure Management: Budget Preparation (1999,International Monetary Fund) — A full understanding of the budget planning and preparation system is essential, not just to derive expenditure projections but to be able to advise policymakers on the feasibility and desirability of specific budget proposals, from a macroeconomic or microeconomic perspective.
Guidelines for Public Expenditure Management 1999, IMF — The analysis provided and the guidelines offered on good practices in budget management are intended for economists reviewing the fiscal sector of the economy and judging the feasibility of fiscal policy actions.
Literature review: Understanding the needs of people with mental health conditions and/ or learning disabilities and the implications for the Pension, Disability and Carers Service 2010 — There is a strong body of literature on good practice in providing services for people with mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities, particularly from the field of social care. A key over-arching theme is the emphasis on personalised services: giving individuals more choice and control over the services they receive and how they access them.
Local Government Discretion and Accountability: A Diagnostic Framework for Local Governance 2008 — Improving government accountability improves service delivery, particularly for the poor, a point the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People makes in convincing fashion (World Bank 2004). Conversely, increasing the resources allocated for public services without fixing the accountability incentive structure will most likely not translate into greater development benefits for the poor.
Measuring Subjective Well-being for Public Policy 2011 — The measurement of wellbeing is central to public policy. There are three uses for anymeasure: 1) monitoring progress; 2) informing policy design; and 3) policy appraisal
Needs Assessment—A Digest,Review, and Comparison of Needs Assessment Literature 1998 — This research digest integrates the major literature in an effort to review and compare many models and case studies that relate to needs assessment.
Program Evaluation Methods 1997 — Treasury Board of Canada
Resource Allocation and the Supports Intensity Scale: Four Papers on Issues and Approaches 2008 — the approaches to resource allocation presented in this White Paper should be considered as current efforts, best practices, and benchmarks for evaluating future implementation efforts based on the judgment of the editors.
Teamwork and Communication in Healthcare a Literature Review 2011 — Teamwork and communication failures are a leading cause of patient safety incidents in healthcare. Though many healthcare providers must work in teams, not only are they are not well trained in teamwork and communication skills, but they also come from different backgrounds, making it difficult to establish a shared mental model in a team setting.
The Department for Work and Pensions Social Cost-Benefit Analysis framework: Methodologies for estimating and incorporating the wider social and economic impacts of work in Cost-Benefit Analysis of employment programmes 2010 — This report provides a series of recommendations for the integration of social impacts into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) framework for employment programmes. This will ensure that the wider impacts on society are considered when evaluating the effectiveness of policies and programmes.
WHAT ROLE CAN A TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS PLAY IN ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE? 2003 — This research set out to examine how the process for developing a training needs analysis tool could influence organisational change. In addition consideration was given to how the training needs analysis process can help get people on board with organisational change and be a change intervention in itself.