Glossary
You have seen the word “efficiency” in many of our resources but wonder what it really means? You need the definition of a word for a reference? Please find below a complete glossary of organizational assessment. With over 100 definitions available, this glossary should help you clarify the terms you need to understand organizational assessment in a comprehensive manner. You can find the words either by searching alphabetically or by selecting the exact word you are looking for in the list.
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a
- Accountability
- Activity
- Analytical tools
- Appraisal*
- Assessment*
- Assumptions*
- Attribution
- Audit*
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b
- Base-line study
- Baseline/Baseline data*
- Benchmark
- Benchmarking*
- Beneficiaries
- Bias*
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c
- Capabilities*
- Capacity building*
- Capacity development*
- Capacity*
- Case Study*
- Case*
- Cluster evaluation
- Conclusions
- Counterfactual
- Country Program Evaluation (Country Assistance Evaluation)
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d
- Data Collection Tools
- Development Intervention
- Development objective
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e
- Economy
- Effect
- Effectiveness*
- Efficiency
- Enabling environment*
- Evaluability
- Evaluation*
- Ex-ante evaluation
- Ex-post evaluation
- External evaluation
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f
- Feedback
- Financial viability*
- Finding*
- Focus group*
- Formative evaluation
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g
- Goal
- Governance*
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i
- Impacts
- Independent evaluation
- Indicator
- Infrastructure*
- Input*
- Inputs
- Institution*
- Institutional Development Impact
- Institutional ethos*
- Internal evaluation
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j
- Joint evaluation*
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l
- Leadership*
- Lessons learned
- Likert scale*
- Logic models*
- Logical framework (Logframe)
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m
- Meta-evaluation
- Mid-term evaluation
- Missing data*
- Monitoring*
- Motivation*
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n
- Niche management*
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o
- Objective*
- Ongoing relevance*
- Opportunity cost*
- Organization*
- Organizational Assessment*
- Outcome*
- Outputs*
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p
- Participatory evaluation
- Partners
- Performance indicator
- Performance measurement
- Performance monitoring
- Performance*
- Primary data*
- Process evaluation
- Program evaluation*
- Program rationale*
- Program*
- Project evaluation
- Project or program objective
- Project trap*
- Project*
- Purpose
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q
- Qualitative data*
- Quality Assurance
- Quantitative data*
- Questionnaire*
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r
- Reach
- Recommendations
- Relevance*
- Reliability*
- Results
- Results Chain
- Results framework*
- Results-Based Management
- Return on investment*
- Review
- Risk analysis
- Rules*
-
s
- Sample*
- Sector program evaluation
- Self-evaluation*
- Stakeholders*
- Success*
- Summative evaluation
- Sustainability
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t
- Target group
- Terms of reference
- Thematic evaluation
- Triangulation
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u
- Unit of analysis*
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v
- Validity of an evaluation*
- Validity*
- Variable*
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w
- Work plan*
All definitions are taken from the following source:
OECD - Development Assistance Committee Network on Development Evaluation. (2002). Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results-Based Management. 40 pp.
This glossary is also available in French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish at the following website: http://www.oecd.org/.
The definition of terms followed by an asterisk symbol (*) was either slightly modified for simplicity reasons or was taken from:
Lusthaus, C., Adrien, M.-H., Anderson, G., Carden, F. & Montalván, G. P. (2002). Organizational Assessment: A Framework for Improving Performance. 210 pp.
The book can be read, downloaded or even ordered at the following website http://www.idrc.ca/.