Impact Evaluation of Social Funds : An Introduction
Despite the importance of knowing whether development programs achieve their objectives, impact evaluations remain rare in developing economies. This is unfortunate. With the growing use of results-based management by governments, determining wheth...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/17737159/impact-evaluation-social-funds-introduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17205 |
Summary: | Despite the importance of knowing
whether development programs achieve their objectives,
impact evaluations remain rare in developing economies. This
is unfortunate. With the growing use of results-based
management by governments, determining whether goals have
been attained and convincingly linking changes to specific
programs has become increasingly critical. Tracking such
outcomes as gains in school enrollment or reductions in
infant mortality is indispensable. But simply gathering good
data on outcomes sheds little light on why objectives have
or have not been met. For this reason, impact evaluations
should be a key instrument in policymakers' monitoring
and evaluation toolbox. |
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