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 almost 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.
- 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
- Capacity building
- Capacity development
- Case
- Case Study
- Cluster evaluation
- Conclusions
- Counterfactual
- Country Program Evaluation (or 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
- Impact
- Independent evaluation
- Indicator
- Infrastructure
- Input
- Inputs
- Institution
- 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
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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
- Performance indicator
- Performance measurement
- Performance monitoring
- Primary data
- Process evaluation
- Program
- Program evaluation
- Program Rationale
- Project
- Project evaluation
- Project or program objective
- Project trap
- 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
- Validity of an evaluation
- 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/
Definitions that are followed by an asterisk symbol (*) were either slightly modified for simplicity reasons or were 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/
