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Monitoring & Evaluation Methodologies
Impact evaluation: ODE briefing note (pdf 35kb)
This Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) paper briefly discusses impact evaluations for aid initiatives - giving a definition, outlining key methods used, and costs/benefits.This briefing note details how an impact evaluation considers not only traditional evaluation criteria (objectives, outputs and outcomes-oriented), but focuses more on the credible examination of impact (and higher order outcomes) of aid initiatives.
Impact evaluations utilise either quantitative or qualitative methods or a combination of both. For example, ADB and World Bank favour quantitative techniques with many in NGO communities preferring qualitative techniques.
These types of evaluations require more data collection (often structured, quantitative), but help to support decisions regarding up-scaling/approach changes, and also substantiate the impact of initiatives (required by AusAID performance reporting).
- Resource link:
http://www.ode.ausaid.gov.au/ publications/pdf/ impact_eval.pdf - Published: 2007
- Source: Office of Development Effectiveness, AusAID (http://www.ode.ausaid.gov.au)
- Added to ADG on: 06 August 2008 , contributed by: ADG team
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