title: Volume overview: Working with assumptions. Existing and emerging approaches for improved program design, monitoring and evaluation.
abstract: This volume attempts to systematically capture the state of practice, highlight commonalities linking existing and emerging approaches to assumption-making and evaluation. It tries to organize existing and emerging knowledge, tools and terminology into an emergent but useful typology for working with assumptions and complexity in program designs, monitoring and evaluation.
authors.affiliation: African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), Hosted by World Agroforestry Centre, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, P. O. Box 30677-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: nkwake@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Apollo M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nkwake
authors.affiliation: Payson Program for Global, Development, Tulane University, 5721 Magazine St, #188, New Orleans, LA 70115, United States. Electronic address: nmorrow@tulane.edu.
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Morrow
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design
keywords: Assumptions; Complexity; Evaluation practice; Volume overview