Enhancing Decision-making in Development Projects: IFAD Impact Evaluation Insights
Discover how IFAD leverages evaluation findings to enhance decision-making and reform processes in development projects. Explore the demand for impact assessment, IFAD's Country Strategy & Programme Evaluations, measuring impact criteria, synthesizing results, and evaluating impact practices.
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Synthesizing results from impact evaluations in IFAD Session: Evaluation Synthesis: Enhancing the use of evaluation findings for decision-making and reform processes experience from IFAD and WFP October 4, 2018 Hansdeep Khaira Evaluation Officer IFAD s Independent Office of Evaluation
The demand for impact assessment Corporate demand for assessing impact of development interventions in projects - Long-standing focus of the organization - Value for money proposition - SDGs - Availability of methodologies for more rigour The thrust on aggregating impact: the IFAD9 IAI
IFAD Country Strategy & Programme Evaluations (CSPE) Objective of CSPE - To assess the performance of all programmes in a country in a given period - To make recommendations for future programmes Methodology - Assessing the performance of lending and non-lending activities according to OECD DAC criteria - Reviewing individual projects and aggregating the results at a programmatic level
The impact criterion Measuring impact in IFAD-supported development projects - The rural poverty impact criterion: Income and assets Agriculture productivity and food security Human and social capital and empowerment Institutions and policies - Indicators/variables - Methods
Synthesizing impact Intuition is to aggregate impact: poverty, beneficiary numbers. - Aggregate indicator v/s project specific indicators Source: IFAD (EB 2016/117/R.8/Rev.1) - Methods (attribution and contribution; varying gradients of rigour; quantitative and qualitative) - Contamination/confounding bias
Evaluating impact: practice Synthesize Focus on causal pathways tracing investment to results Use a thematic approach
Discussion point Aggregation vs Synthesis: the audience s perspective
