Basic Impact Assessment At Project Level Page 25

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6 Competency and Expertise Requirements
Minimum requirements and preferences should be stated, and CVs requested for the
consultants put forward to carry out substantial parts of the work. You should expect them
to advise of their:
• professional expertise relating to the issue being evaluated
• knowledge of the country / region
• general development expertise and experience
• cross-disciplinary skills (e.g.. social, economic and institutional)
• awareness of gender and cultural issues
• impact assessment experience, and of what methodologies
• any special language skills
7 Conduct of the Work
This should set out any useful information about the way the consultancy is expected to be
organised and implemented. In particular it should state what will be:
the role of the consultancy team leader;
the role of team members and the organisation of the team;
the design and implementation of work programmes;
target dates for completion of work programmes;
the role of local counterpart staff in the conduct of the work
how the research process can benefit those involved
how the research process will contribute to the programme
8 Reporting Requirements
This covers both routine reporting on the progress of the assignment and on the final
outcome/ conclusions of the work carried out.
Particular attention should be paid to:
• the scope and timing of progress reports for DFID and recipients
• the need for presentations/ workshops to discuss progress and conclusions with project
staff and management
• the coverage and timing of reports, setting out the results of the consultancy.
Impact assessment reports need to be short, clear, and easy to read if they are to be
accessible and effective. Authors should write for a general audience, and should bear in
mind that English will not be the first language of many readers. Technical and academic
jargon should be avoided. Long reports will not be read, and are expensive to translate.
At a minimum the report should include:
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A clear statement of the objective of the impact assessment
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A description of the programme including its objectives
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A description of the methodology used for qualitative and quantitative components,
especially criteria and process for selecting participants
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Findings, interpretation of results, conclusions and when appropriate,
recommendations for programme improvement
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