Impact Evaluation in Practice
Course objective:
Impact evaluations are a key tool for making evidence-informed decisions to increase the impact of projects, policies and organizations. The objective of this course is to enable participants to use existing impact evaluations for strategic and operational decision-making, and to commission and manage new impact evaluations. The course provides an overview of widely used quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluation and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. It enables participants to identify appropriate methods to answer their impact evaluation questions considering the characteristics and context of the intervention. Participants will discuss and learn from existing impact evaluations within the field of development cooperation and policy. Using case studies from their own organizations, participants will learn all the steps involved in an impact evaluation.
Key topics:
- Key features of impact evaluations
- Overview of quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluations
- Brief introduction to data collection, sampling and sample size calculation
- Assessing the quality of impact evaluation proposals and reports
- Managing an impact evaluation
- Use of impact evaluations for project planning and organizational strategy
- Transforming an organization through evidence-informed projects
- Course participants must be familiar with results-oriented project cycle management (PCM) and basic evaluation concepts and processes
ECTS points:
3
