Who should conduct impact evaluation?

7 important questions on Who should conduct impact evaluation?

Who can undertake an impact evaluation?

An external person can lead an impact evaluation but internals and a combination of both as well. By external people is meant an external evaluator or evaluation team. By internal people is meant an internal but seperate unit of the implementing organization and those involved in an intervention (including community members).

What are the pro's of an external evaluator?

Benefits of external evaluators are:
- An external evaluator can bring a range of expertise and experience that may not be available within the organization.
- He may have more independence and credibility than an internal evaluator.

This is why USAID Evaluation Policy sets out an expectation that most evaluations will be done by an external evaluator.

What are the cons of an external evaluator?

The disadvantage of an external evaluator is:
that they are not always perceived as unbiased, as their data gathering and interpretations may be affected by their lack of familiarity with the context.
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What are benefits of involving program stakeholders and/or community members in conducting an evaluation?

Program stakeholders and community members can add rigor and credibility by supporting better acces to data (especially the key informants). And next to that interpretate the data more appropriate.

Which approach results in practice in the best quality evaluation?

The approach that leads to the best quality evaluation exists of three aspects:
- establishing a team of evaluators with external and internal perspectives
- ensuring transparency in terms of what data are being used and how in the evaluation
- triangulation

Where stands triangulation for?

When you practice triangulation you actually:
- are using multiple sources of evidence (which have complementary strengths);
- and multiple perspectives in analysis and interpretation.

Who participate in the common participatory approach to managing evaluations? And in which do they participate?

Participatory approaches to managing evaluations typically involve program staff, community members and development partners. They participate not only in collecting data, but also in negotiating the purpose of the impact evaluation, developing the key evaluation questions, designing an evaluation to answer them and following through on the results.

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