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Overview
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)
- include control groups if possible (households which do not have acces to modern energy) into your baseline and impact study
- consider research ethics
The following tables show typical steps for baseline and impact studies, which we would recommend and support.
Preparation
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Materials/ Support
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Library
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| Terms for Consultants/ Enumerators
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- Sample Terms for national / international consultants
- Sample Terms for enumerators
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ToR Consultants:
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| Selection Consultant/ Enumerators
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| 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
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- Checklist on relevant development goals
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| Developing of Results Chains/ Indicators (consider
undesired side effects being positive or negative)
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Cooking:
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| Developing of Questionnaires, interview guidelines, PRA tools (MAPP), observation criteria and other tools (catalogue of methods)
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Example Questionnaires
(Impact Studies Material)
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| Sampling/ Selection target Group
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| Training of Supervisors and Enumerators/ Pretesting
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- Training Material
- Training Agenda
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Implementation
| Task
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Materials/ Support
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Library
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| Logistics
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Checklist on how to implement HH Interviews
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| Conducting Interviews
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| Data entry
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Data Analysis/ Reporting
| Task
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Materials/ Support
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Library
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| Data analysis
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| Data interpretation – in exchange with the project team (in a workshop)
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- Checklist for data interpretation
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| Report writing (+ summary writing)
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- Example for report summary
- Example for ICS description (Annex)
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Handover of raw data
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Further Information
References
