Basic Impact Assessment At Project Level Page 19
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36Output to purpose reviews are also required for all projects over £500 000. These may
sometimes be done by EDAs and sometimes commissioned out, largely depending on the
resources EDAs have available. These reports should focus on reporting against impact
assessment indicators at the output level and at the purpose level.
The key findings of the impact assessments at each level should be shared with the
stakeholders involved to increase programme-level learning. Impact assessment should
be regarded as a dynamic process and not as a series of static reports. Impact
assessment can only contribute to lesson learning if the information is used as a basis for
asking intelligent questions about project implementation and how it can be enhanced.
The critical issues which the designer and manager of an impact assessment study will
need to take into account are:
• Costs and confidence
The design of an IA must be very closely related to the budget available: this may be a
platitude but overambitious designs continue to lead to poor quality studies or delays that
make findings irrelevant.
While rapid appraisal approaches may appear cheaper than large-scale surveys, however,
rigorous qualitative IAs will require the use of high calibre staff who are given time to
prepare properly, and the importance of engaging suitable staff should not be
underestimated.
Between these two extremes are a vast array of different options, and limited investments
in project monitoring by program staff, for example by including in the project design and
budget, development of an appropriate MIS system can make moderate cost impact
assessment at high levels of quality much more feasible as less primary data collection is
necessary
• Availability of human resources for impact assessment
In many, if not most, developing countries recruiting IA personnel who have the skills and
qualities to interview, collate, analyse and write up findings is a key problem at both
consultant and fieldworker levels. Commonly, different studies find themselves competing
for the same small pool of people which, while it may usefully raise payments for scarce
skills, puts these individuals under great strain and does not appear to stimulate a ‘supply
side response’. This must be recognised as a key constraint and efforts to build ‘impact
assessment’ capacities professionally and institutionally should be a priority for
development agencies if they intend to continue to emphasize the need for IA.
• Respondents: motivation and representation
The issue of how to persuade respondents to spare the time for an interview, and provide
accurate and honest answers, is an important one that is rarely mentioned in IA
methodological statements.
Different strategies are needed for different types of
respondent - program beneficiary, control group and program drop out.
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