Impact Assessment

We discuss the role of funding agencies in processes related to impact assessment. In these insightful conversations, we delve deep into relevant questions surrounding quantification, qualitative methods, the difference between outcomes and impact, and the need for standardization versus the relevance of context-specific approaches, amongst other related issues.

Binoy Cherian and Vishwas V Patel bring in varied perspectives from an important set of stakeholders – impact assessment agencies; they also share the state of the art in the space in terms of methods and technologies.

In their essay, Anuradha De and Meera Samson discuss aspects of the impact assessment process in the domain of education interventions.

In her reflective piece titled ‘Impact Assessment: Five lessons I have learnt,’ Dwithiya Raghavan shares insights from her decade-long learning sojourn in this space and foregrounds the need for objective setting, regular monitoring, and for developing processual understanding.

Annapurna Neti and Puja Guha, focus on issues related to impact assessment of livelihood interventions, and demonstrate the relevance of contemporary, participatory approaches in undertaking such work.