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Peter O’Flynn

Peter O’Flynn

Research Officer

Providing scientific foundation for enterprise development approaches in E4D/SOGA’s theory of change and analysis Impact Evaluation of Swedfund’s Poverty Impact CDC Longitudinal Development Impact Study Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation Increasing Transparency in Smallholder Supply Chains: Comparing Approaches to Monitoring Performance of Investments and Private Sector Participation Business, Markets and the State Research Officers and Assistants Rural Futures South East Asia Sub Saharan Africa
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