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Working Paper

7 January 2019

Contribution Analysis and Estimating the Size of Effects: Can We Reconcile the Possible with the Impossible?

Published by: IDS

While contribution analysis provides a step-by-step approach to verify whether and why an intervention is a contributory factor to development impact, most contribution analysis studies do not quantify the ‘share of contribution’ that can be attributed to a particular support intervention. Commissioners of evaluations, however, often want to understand the size or importance of a contribution, not least for accountability purposes.

Giel Ton
Giel Ton & 6 others
Centre for Development Impact
Journal Article

4 January 2016

Introduction – Rethinking Impact Evaluation for Development

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This IDS Bulletin is the first of two special issues presenting contributions from the event ‘Impact Innovation and Learning: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for the Future’, organised by IDS in March 2013. The initiative, as well as these two issues, represent a ‘rallying cry’ for impact evaluation to rise to the challenges of a post?MDG/post?2015 development agenda. This introduction ar

Barbara Befani & 2 others
Journal Article

4 January 2016

Process Tracing and Contribution Analysis: A Combined Approach to Generative Causal Inference for Impact Evaluation

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article proposes a combination of a popular evaluation approach, contribution analysis (CA), with an emerging method for causal...

Barbara Befani
John Mayne
Journal Article

4 January 2016

Introduction – Towards Systemic Approaches to Evaluation and Impact

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This IDS Bulletin is the second of two that follow an Institute of Development Studies event seeking to define an agenda for research...

Barbara Befani & 2 others
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