Tools – Discover and Learn

A Measurement for Change resource kit: Measurement for Change: Using your Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning system to generate effective decision making from Grand Challenges Canada, Saving Brains

A Data for Action resource kit: Data for Action: Good data management is essential to building sustainable impact at scale from Grand Challenges Canada, Saving Brains

A resource for Indigenous-led evaluation: The Waawiyeyaa Evaluation Tool by Andrea Johnston

On building evidence to inform early childhood programming: Expanding the evidence base to drive more productive early childhood investment by Jack Shonkoff, James Radner, et al.

Frontiers in Public Health series on using evidence for effective delivery and its introductory paper on Measurement for Change:

• Effective Delivery of Integrated Interventions in Early Childhood: Innovations in Evidence Use, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning by Jane Fisher, Abhay Gaidhane, et al.
• The Aspirations of Measurement for Change by Joachim Krapels, Lotte van der Haar, et al.

Resources from the special issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on implementing early childhood programs include:

• Implementation Research and Practice for Early Childhood Development by Aisha Yousafzai, Frances Aboud, et al.
• What implementation evidence matters: scaling-up nurturing interventions that promote early childhood development by Pia Britto, Manpreet Singh, et al.
• Reporting guidelines for implementation research on nurturing care interventions designed to promote early childhood development by Aisha Yousafzai, Frances Aboud, et al.

This entire special issue is also relevant to Theme 2: Informing design and implementation for early child development programmes by Joy Lawn, et al.

From the 2021 book  The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It edited by List, Suskind, and Supplee:

• Sustaining Impact after Scaling Using Data and Continuous Feedback by David Chambers and Wynne Norton
• Measurement Built for Scale: Designing and Using Measures of Intervention and Outcome that Facilitate Scaling Up by Scott McConnell and Howard Goldstein
• The Science of Using Science: A New Framework for Understanding the Threats to Scaling Evidence-Based Policies by Omar Al-Ubaydli, Min Sok Lee, et al.

Three classic texts on relevant aspects of evaluation and learning:

• Utilization-Focused Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne Campbell-Patton
• Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton
• Evaluating Social Innovation by Hallie Preskill and Tanya Beer

Related resources, from the past decade of experience with developmental evaluation:

• A Developmental Evaluation Companion by Jamie Gamble, Kate McKegg, et al.
• The Developmental Evaluation Resource Library hosted by the McConnell Foundation.

On communities of practice:

• Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge by Etienne Charles Wenger, Richard McDermott, et al.
• Introduction to communities of practice: a brief overview of the concept and its uses by Etienne Wenger-Trayner and Beverly Wenger-Trayner

On knowledge and the subsidiarity principle: The uses of knowledge in global health by Seye Abimbola

The TruePoint Center’s CLEAR initiative includes cases, a framework for resilience and adaptation, and a self-diagnostic tool.

On the connection to the large-scale Sustainable Development Goals: Advancing the Sustainable Development Goal for Education Through Developmentally Informed Approaches to Measurement by Alice Wuermli, Antje von Suchodoletz, et al.