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31 July 2019
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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.
Journal
13 November 2018
The Millennium Villages: Lessons on Evaluating Integrated Rural Development
Published by: IDS
Integrated development projects seem to have largely fallen out of favour since their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. Integrated projects...
Working Paper
2 October 2018
Getting the Most Out of Participatory Impact Assessment: Reflections from a Multi-Country Cash Transfer Impact Assessment
Published by: IDS
Mixed methods approaches are widely used in impact evaluations, but all too often a ‘methodological gap’ emerges between broad, large-scale surveys and in-depth, small-scale qualitative investigation that can be difficult to bridge. In this CDI Practice Paper we reflect on a multi-country impact assessment of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Opinion
15 February 2018
Past Event
SenseMaker: Using Micro-Narratives for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
In this CDI seminar, Steff Deprez will present the principles and practice of the SenseMaker methodology and provide examples of SenseMaker applications in diverse programmes for both monitoring and evaluation processes.
Past Event
Mixing Methods to Assess the Impact of Private Sector Support: Experiences from the Dutch PRIME-Programme
In this seminar, new CDI Director Giel Ton will present his experiences with research design to improve real-time monitoring and evaluation in PSD organisations – Pioneering Real-time Monitoring and Evaluation in small and medium enterprises (PRIME).
Publication
1 June 2017
Northern Ghana Millennium Villages Impact Evaluation: Preliminary Report on the Fourth Round of Data
Published by: Itad
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) has been designed to demonstrate how an integrated approach to community-led development can translate the international Millennium Development Goals into results. The project in northern Ghana is one of several projects instigated over the past 10 years, which together are set to reach nearly half a million people across 10 countries in Africa.
Past Event
Evaluating impact of business partnerships
During this seminar, Carrie Baptist will reflect on her experiences creating and implementing global M&E systems for three of Save the Children UK’s largest business partnerships: with GlaxoSmithKline, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever.
Project
Increasing Transparency in Smallholder Supply Chains: Comparing Approaches to Monitoring Performance of Investments and Private Sector Participation
For this DfID-funded project, we will be providing a synthesis of the types of monitoring, evaluation and data being used by investors and the private sector in agricultural supply chains in a developing country context.