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Impact Evaluation

An impact evaluation assesses the changes in the well-being of individuals that can be attributed to a particular project, program or policy. This website aims at disseminating information and providing resources for people and organizations working to assess and improve the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing poverty.

Publication: "Are You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery"


	Doing Impact Evaluation Series

	Impact Evaluation Working Paper series

	Spanish-World Bank Trust Fund for Impact Evaluation (SIEF)

	PREM Week 2007 materials: The Ins and Outs of Impact Evaluation and PSIA

	HD Week 2006 materials: Measuring Results and Evaluating Impact

Training Events and Materials

A database of ongoing and completed evaluations.


	Search for an impact evaluation


	Impact Evaluation Clinics— Informal sessions that support Task Team Leaders in the design of impact evaluations for their projects.

	Brown bag lunches

	Workshops


	Impact Evaluation and the Project Cycle (139kb PDF) – also available in Spanish (117kb PDF)

	Conducting Quality Impact Evaluations Under Budget, Time and Data Constraints (366kb PDF)

	Impact Evaluation for Slum Upgrading Interventions (383kb PDF)

	A Guide to Water and Sanitation Sector Impact Evaluations (485kb PDF)

	Conducting Impact Evaluations in Urban Transport (525kb PDF)

	Data for Impact Evaluation (549kb PDF)

	Impact Evaluation for Microfinance: Review of Methodological Issues (326kb PDF)

	Impact Evaluation for Land Property Rights Reforms (785kb PDF)

	Methodologies to Evaluate Early Childhood Development Programs (633kb PDF)

	Impact Evaluation for School-Based Management Reform (388kb PDF)

Resources on Methodology


	Rural Roads and Poor Area Development in Vietnam

	Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent like other Sources of Income?

	Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-age Profiles

	Does Money Matter? The Effects of Cash Transfers on Child Health and Development in Rural Ecuador

	Housing, Health and Happiness

	Extending Health Insurance to the Rural Population: An Impact Evaluation of China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

	More Time is Better: An Evaluation of the Full-Time School Program in Uruguay

	Health Insurance for the Poor: Initial Impacts of Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor

	The Impact of Private Provision of Public Education: Empirical Evidence from Bogota's Concession Schools

More working papers


	Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs (283kb PDF) (also available in Spanish)

	The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits: An Introduction to Impact Evaluation (124kb PDF)

	Methods and Techniques

	Key Readings

	Related Links

	Additional Readings

	Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners

	PRSP Sourcebook: Monitoring and Evaluation

	Evaluation Capacity Development No. 15: Institutionalization of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems to Improve Public Sector Management

RELATED TOPICS


	Poverty Reduction Strategies		Poverty Monitoring

	Poverty Analysis		Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA)

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