Thursday May 17, 2012
Impact Evaluation
Presentation
Impact Evaluations are intended to find out whether a programme, project or policy has had long-term results on individuals, households and institutions and whether these results may be attributed to the intervention (PREVAL, A Brief Guide to Key Concepts in Monitoring and Evaluation, 2005).
This section will provide information resources as well as useful links and notes on Good Practice in Impact Evaluations implemented in Latin America and the
Baseline Studies provide a range of evidence and insights on the initial conditions of the target population of a project, programme or public policy, as well as the dynamics of the context of intervention, so that this information may be compared with subsequent measurements to find out what changes have been achieved (PREVAL).
This section will provide information resources as well as useful links and notes on Good Practice in Baseline Studies developed in Latin America and the
Good Practice
- In July 2007, the People with Value project, run by the Brazilian government, started developing their M&E system. However, several issues prevented the M&E system from working effectively as well as an evaluation culture from developing. Within th...Read more
- PRODAP 2 took part in an Intensive Programme on Monitoring and Evaluation (PRISE), sponsored by PREVAL and RUTA in 2002 to facilitate institutionalisation of monitoring and evaluation within the project. With the direction provided by this training,...Read more
- From 2001 to 2005, IFAD’s regional programme Rural Uruguay made the experience of implementing and managing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematisation Unit (M&E Unit). As part of this process a number of lessons learned were developed, and proje...Read more
- The Emerging Learning technique may be seen as part of an approach that seeks to build the learning capacity of organisations. Its starting point is identifying guiding questions to guide the reflection process; once these have been prioritised, repl...Read more
- Since 2003, the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IADB) Inter-American Institute for Social Development (in Spanish, INDES) has been implementing an initiative to encourage the study of good social management practice in the region. To this end, ...Read more
