The future of impact evaluation in Africa

Date: 29/04/2022

Type: Evaluation Matters Magazine

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Measuring impact is a technical and complex exercise. Analyzing the impact of an intervention and determining its positive and negative impacts and whether these effects were intended or unintended, requires specific skills, methodologies, and human and institutional capacity. Moreover, a good impact evaluation requires a solid, theory-driven design with pertinent quantitative and qualitative sources of data.

This edition of eVALUation Matters, focuses on the future of impact evaluation in Africa, highlighting the need to review methodologies to understand which ones have the greatest potential in which settings/contexts and which new, alternative or innovative methods enable evaluators to conduct greater quality impact evaluations.

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Full Magazine: The future of impact evaluation in Africa 6.28 MB
Article 1: Implementing development agendas in light of current challenges 233.84 KB
Article 2: From analyzing public policies to evaluating their impact 247.38 KB
Article 3: Combining participatory narrative methods with quantitative approaches to evaluate impact 449.68 KB
Article 4: Reducing impact evaluation capacity disparities through holistic engagement 228.8 KB
Article 5: Are Randomized Control Trials a “Gold Standard?" 247.12 KB
Article 6: Reimagining outcome harvesting as an approach for assessing the contribution of programs in fragile settings 391.03 KB
Article 7: Impact evaluation: Insight from an IDEV evaluator 968.34 KB