Impact Monitoring Guidelines

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Overview

The Impact Monitoring Group of Energising Development has developed recommendations for sound impact assessments.

We recommend to:

  • use the recommended list of indicators
  • conduct baseline studies before project intervention and impact studies after households, social infrastructure or SMEs received access to modern energy
  • use a theory based approach by applying the result chain for developing the study design
  • use a mixed methods approach: the logic of the comparative advantages of methods: i.e. the mix of quantitative (standardised household interviews) and qualitative methods (open / semi-structured interviews with key persons and households or focus group discussions)
  • include, wherever possible, control groups (households which do not have acces to modern energy) into your baseline and impact study
  • consider research ethics

The following tables show in more detail typical steps for baseline and impact studies, which we furthermore recommend and support.

Introduction

Preparation

Tasks Materials/ Support Library
Terms for Consultants/ Enumerators
  • Sample Terms for national / international consultants
  • Sample Terms for enumerators
ToR Consultants:
Selection Consultant/ Enumerators
  • Consultants
Study of available documents and statistics on national development goals and policies, national sector goals and policies, BMZ goals and concept for the partner country
  • Checklist on relevant development goals
Developing of Results Chains/ Indicators (consider

undesired side effects being positive or negative)

Cooking:

Developing of Questionnaires, interview guidelines, PRA tools (MAPP), observation criteria and other tools (catalogue of methods)

Example Questionnaires

(Impact Studies Material)

Sampling/ Selection target Group
Training of Supervisors and Enumerators/ Pretesting
  • Training Material
  • Training Agenda


Implementation

Task Materials/ Support Library
Logistics Checklist on how to implement HH Interviews


Conducting Interviews
Data entry


Data Analysis/ Reporting

Task Materials/ Support Library
Data analysis
Data interpretation – in exchange with the project team (in a workshop)
  • Checklist for data interpretation
Report writing (+ summary writing)
  • Example for report summary
  • Example for ICS description (Annex)

Handover of raw data




Further Information

References