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Tracking Development Progress and Evaluating Development Partnerships in the Post-2015 Era
Published by: Wilton Park
Wilton Park convened this meeting to shine light on the post-2015 journey towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the role...
Knowledge for Development: Optimising Development Impact Through Investments in Research
Published by: Wilton Park
Building on the UK Government’s 2015 spending review, the role that science has to play in addressing challengesfaced by developing...
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.
Understanding and Optimising the Social Impact of Venture Capital: Three Lessons from Ghana
Background: Mobilising investment for sustainable development is a priority for many African governments and their international allies....
Impact Evaluation of Swedfund’s Poverty Impact
This project addresses the following question: Have the investments undertaken by Swedfund contributed to poverty reduction and, if so, to what extent and how?
CDC Longitudinal Development Impact Study
The CDC Group plc is a Development Finance Institution (DFI) wholly owned by the UK government. Its mission is to support the growth of businesses and infrastructure development throughout Africa and South Asia in order to create jobs and make a difference to people’s lives in some of the poorest areas of the world.
Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach that started in Bangladesh and has been spread to varying degrees in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Nepal. To a limited degree, it has also been trialled in some African countries.
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.