Impact Evaluation, as a tool, is a crucial link in the loop of programme design, feedback and performance improvement. Impact evaluation is predominantly quantitative although in the recent years qualitative and participatory research tools have been increasingly applied.
Objectives of the Unit
By the end of this module, the reader would be able to understand the following:
- Role of impact evaluation in promoting social accountability
- Various types of methods and tools of impact evaluation
- Ways of evaluating the impact of social accountability experiments
Scope of the Unit
This module would introduce the reader to the concept of impact evaluation, the various contexts in which impact evaluation studies are conducted, the ways in which the outcomes of impact evaluation can be used to promote social accountability and, importantly, how to design an evaluation that would bring out the efficacy or impact of a social accountability initiative.
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