We traditionally think of impact evaluation as an academic or technical skill. The Impact Evaluation (IE) Lab at the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), a think tank in Dar es Salaam, is ...

Natural gas distributed energy is recognized as a pivotal means to enhance energy efficiency and mitigate carbon dioxide emissions through localized energy cascading. Positioned as a key option for ...

Multiple stakeholders in the microfinance sector seek to foster financial, social, and environmental development in a sustainable way by providing a wide range of products and services for financial ...

Billions of dollars are invested in the transport sector (16 percent of lending by multi-lateral development banks since 2000), yet measuring how these investments translate into intended impacts is ...

Staying abreast of the social sector’s expansive and evolving lexicon is challenging. Tracking evaluation terminology can be especially taxing. Standing at the intersection of academia and strategic ...

A couple of seminal studies published almost 20 years ago found that conservationists needed to start examining whether their actions were actually causing the desired effects. Assessing conservation ...

The World Bank’s Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) and the Development Impact Evaluation Department (DIME), have launched an Impact Evaluation Collaborative on Moving Economic Inclusion to ...

Assuming that a criminal justice program is evaluable and animpact evaluation is feasible, an appropriate research design must be developed. The basic idea of an impact evaluation is simple. Program ...

In today’s evidence-driven world, there is increasing demand for researchers with the skills to design, conduct, and evaluate studies that help institutions and schools improve their decision-making ...