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Evaluation is the systematic process of assessing an organization's overall achievements and impact in the pursuit of its goals. This involves collecting and analyzing information to track effectiveness, providing regular feedback, and determining the efficiency and effectiveness of resources used. Impact evaluation can produce significant savings and is increasingly influential in development agencies and countries.
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What is Evaluation? • Evaluation is the episodic/periodic assessment of overall achievements. • Evaluations are linked to outcomes (impact, goal) as opposed to only immediate outputs • Evaluation is a systematic process of collecting and analysing information to track the effectiveness of the organisation in achievement of goals. • Evaluation is the collection and analysis of information to assess the impact of the organisation’s work
What is Evaluation? • Done by objective persons, often independent of implementors • Involves judgements based on review of actual experience – focus on outcomes and impact (goal)levels • Using the data that were collected during monitoring, and other data • Provides regular feedback that enable an organisation to analyse the consequences, outcomes, and results of its actions. • Can produce enormous savings !
Evaluation Asks What have we achieved? What impact have we had?
Monitoring Evaluation Efficiency and Effectiveness • Efficiency • Measures how productively inputs (money, time, personnel, equipment) are being used in the creation of outputs (products, results) • An efficient organisation is one that achieves its objectives with the most resourceful expenditures of resources • Effectiveness • Measures the degree to which results / objectives have been achieved. • An effective organisation is one that achieves its results and objectives
Forms and Methods • Impact Evaluation • Trend toward randomized control trials • Key issue is assessing ‘the counterfactual’ – what would have happened in the absence of the intervention • Process Evaluation • Formative • Summative
When do an Impact Evaluation ? • • Pilot programs • • Innovative programs • • Representative or important programs
Impact Evaluation Can be Very Influential • Progressa Evaluation saved millions in Mexico, spurred major growth in conditional cash transfers • Many other examples (see handouts)
Development Agencies and Countries Increasingly Focus on Impact Evaluation • DIME Initiative • Recent impact evaluation methods and findings • http://www.3ieimpact.org/ • Global initiative to support independent impact evaluation • Esther Duflo on Impact Evaluation • Prize winning economist argues for impact evaluation • Closing the Evaluation Gap • Center for Global Development Advocacy on IE
