Impact evaluations—typically, third-party studies that seek to prove a program model’s effectiveness—seem to be all the rage in social sector circles these days. Maybe in part that’s because the ...

Rose Mary Garcia, director of the monitoring and evaluation practice, Crown Agents, Washington, DC, USA Involve all stakeholders: Development is a participatory process. Although every time you ...

How can impact evaluations actually be helpful? These top tips will save development professionals time, energy and money International development can be messy – with uncertain, complex settings, and ...

The Spanish Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, known as the Spanish SIEF, was a €10.4 million program ($13.75 million) funded by Spain with a $1.5 million grant from Britain. The goal of the five-year ...

As leaders across the social sector adopt the collective impact approach to problem solving, an important question looms in many people’s minds: Given how complex and unpredictable the work is, what ...

The course is designed to improve the skills and knowledge of staff and short-term consultants responsible for managing impact evaluations in the field. The workshop is intended to improve the skills ...

Measuring the impact or the ‘value-for-money’ of a research infrastructure can be challenging, but here lessons from Europlanet demonstrate the worth of embedding an Impact Evaluation Officer within ...

This IDS Bulletin presents a ‘rallying cry’ for impact evaluation to rise to the challenges of a post-MDG/post-2015 world. It is the first of two issues that follow a workshop entitled ‘Impact, ...

Public policies on occupational safety and health (OSH) aim primarily at improving working conditions. Usually, this objective is set at constitutional level and through other regulatory sources, both ...