Dates: 08 February 2006 - 10 February 2006 Location: London, Southwell House
Course fee: £420.00
Number of days: 3
Description:
This workshop will review the developments in the methodologies for assessing the impact of the types of Social Development work undertaken by NGOs. It will analyse the emergence of Impact Assessment as a separate discipline. It will also explore the areas of overlap between evaluations, which look at the efficiency and effectiveness of outcomes, and impact assessment which aims to identify the longer-term changes associated with Social Development work. The workshop will examine to what extent the NGO community’s experience with impact assessment has begun to contribute to the body of knowledge about likely benefits (and problems) with particular ways of working.

The method of working combines case studies, group work and peer support. This is complemented by presentations on relevant theoretical frameworks and emergent trends and thinking.

Who is this course for?

This course assumes that participants are already familiar with concepts, principles and practice of Monitoring and Evaluation, since these will not be covered in detail here.

Objectives:

·Emergence of impact assessment

·The importance of perceptions – who defines what impact is?

·Exploration of alternative methodologies

·How to get a representative picture – the use of case studies; sampling methods; triangulation between quantitative and qualitative data

·Uses of base line surveys and data

·Allowing for changes in indicators

·Using the information

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