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Impact Evaluation

Definition

  1. An assessment of how the intervention (or activities) being evaluated affects outcomes, whether these effects are intended or unintended. The proper analysis of impact requires a counterfactual of what those outcomes would have been in the absence of the intervention.
  2. Impact evaluations carried out by independent third-party evaluators may be appropriate, especially where the risks to Stakeholders are high and/or not easily reversed.

Source

  1. OUTLINE OF PRINCIPLES OF IMPACT EVALUATION (2006) OECD https://www.oecd.org/development/evaluation/dcdndep/37671602.pdf
  2. United Nations Development Programme. (2021). SDG Impact Standards Glossary. https://sdgimpact.undp.org/assets/SDG-Impact-Standards-Glossary.pdf
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