Impact Monitoring Guidelines

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The focus of the EnDev 2 M&E Sytem has shifted from Outcome Monitoring (EnDev 1) to Outcome and Impact Monitoring (EnDev 2). Therefore the Monitoring Group are developing recommendations for a "proper" impact M&E System.

We recommend to:

  • conduct baseline studies before project intervention and impact studies after households, social infrastructure or SMEs got access to a form of modern energy
  • use a mix of quantitative (standarised household interviews) and qualitative methods (open/ semi-structured interviews with key persons and households or focus group discussions)
  • a theory based approach by applying the result chain for developing the study design
  • to include control groups if possible (households which do not have acces to modern energy) into your baseline and impact study 

The following table shows typical steps for baseline and impact studies, which we would recommend and support.

Steps Tasks Materials/ Support Library
Step 1: Preperation Terms for Consultants/ Enumerators
  • Sample Terms for national / international consultants
  • Sample Terms for enumerators 
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
Developing of Questionnaires, interview guidelines, PRA tools (MAPP), observation criteria and other tools 
  • Questionnaires for hh (stoves), stove producers, social institutions and restaurants using ICS
  • PRA tools for focus group discussions (MAPP)
  • Interview guidelines for village authorities
  • Observation criteria for stoves in use (example lists of good cooking practices and of stove conditions) 
Sampling/ Selection target Group
Training of Supervisors and Enumerators/ Pretesting
  • Training Material
  • Training Agenda
Step 2: Implementation Logistics


Conducting Interviews
Data entry
Step 3: Data Analysis/ Reporting Data analysis
  • Guiding Question for data analysis 
Data interpretation – in exchange with the project team (in a workshop)
  • Checklist for data interpretation
Report writing
  • Example for report summary
  • Example for ICS description (Annex)