Impact Evaluation for Development Programs

Impact evaluation entails the assessment of the changes made as a result of projects, policies, and programs. The program then aims at instilling the necessary skills required to participants in the ways they should execute evaluations related to their respective projects. The program introduces participants to current quantitative as well as qualitative evaluation techniques for impact evaluation and gives them an insight into the critical understanding of the roles they can play in the design and assessment of public policy and development interventions.

Program Objectives:

• ✓ Understand problems of evaluation (biases and placement, attribution and selection)
• ✓ Learn impact evaluation econometric tools
• ✓ Undertake analysis of impact data using Propensity Matching and Difference-in - Difference
• ✓ Report and share findings from impact evaluation
• ✓ Carry out a project impact evaluation
• ✓ Explain designs of IE
• ✓ Identify impact evaluation theories and practices