Impact Monitoring Guidelines

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Introduction

The Impacts Monitoring Group of Energising Development has developed recommendations for a "proper" 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 got access to a form of 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: that means the mix of quantitative (standarised household interviews) and qualitative methods (open/ semi-structured interviews with key persons and households or focus group discussions)
  • to include control groups if possible (households which do not have acces to modern energy) into your baseline and impact study 


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

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

Rural Electrifciation:

Cooking:

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

Example Questionnaires

PRA tools, Interview Guidelines, Observation criteria etc.


(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