Impact Monitoring
Poverty reduction is the overarching goal of development interventions and impact monitoring can be used to ensure that development interventions and policies are better oriented to the needs of the poor. Good, impact monitoring efforts should help you understand, measure and improve poverty outcomes of development interventions.
Our work on Impact Monitoring relates to three interconnected aspects: (i) Evaluations where we undertake to evaluate the poverty impact of development interventions; (ii) Monitoring where we undertake to monitor project implementation to ensure that poverty objectives are met; and (iii) Methodology Development and Training which use insights from the evaluation and monitoring experiences, to develop new and appropriate tools and methods, and share learning through training programmes.
Some of our current work is as follows:
A Final Light Review of UN Women’s component of the JPP “Strengthening the Social and Economic Empowerment of Women Returnees in Resettled Communities in Sri Lanka”
| The evaluation seeks to assess and document the success and lessons learnt of UN Women’s component of the project with regard to return and resettlement, with an aim to provide recommendations to strengthen future interventions targeting women IDP/refugee returnees. |
During this period, the inception report has been submitted and finalised, while the data collection component is ongoing.
Final Evaluation of Women in Leadership and Learning (WILL) for Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
CEPA is conducting the final evaluation of the project “WILL – Women in Learning and Leadership: Strengthening Women’s Voice and Participation in Political Decision-Making in Sri Lanka” implemented by Search for Common Ground (Search). CEPA will evaluate the project and its design by looking at its relevance for the context in which it was conducted and whether the needs of the beneficiaries were sufficiently addressed by the project.
Enhancing gender-inclusive socio-economic development (EGSD) in Uva and Central Provinces, Sri Lanka
CEPA team was selected to carry out the above-mentioned end-project evaluation by the Oxfam-led consortium. The team worked closely with young girls and boys both from estate and rural communities, women federations, local authorities, public bodies community-based organizations (CBOs) and private sector’s members to enhance socio-economic development.
Methodology Development and Training
- Training Workshops for Practitioners on Poverty Impact Monitoring
- Developing Q-squared or mixed method approaches to carry out impact evaluation
- Contributing to the Teaching Evaluation in South Asia (TESA) initiative, which is a collection of academic institutions in South Asia who are attempting to develop a curriculum for teaching evaluation as a postgraduate diploma
Monitoring
- Mid-Term Review of USAID Public Private Alliances on Dairy Enhancement in the Eastern Province (DEEP) and Sustainable Agriculture through Commercialisation (SAC)
- Review of HelpAge Sri Lankas projects addressing wellbeing of the elders in a post tsunami context and realising rights and entitlements under the Sri Lanka Elders Act.
- Baseline study for the Ministry of health towards evaluating the impact of a pilot project to revamp the primary health care system in Sri Lanka.
Evaluations
- Evaluation of the impact of the involuntary resettlement programme under the Southern Transport Development Project on living standards and livelihoods of the people affected by the southern highway (2006-2011)
- Evaluation of Community-based Interventions to improve living environments of underserved settlements: the case of Gothamipura – Colombo (2007-2011)
- Evaluation of rural connectivity project, to assess the impact on economic growth of communities, before and after provision of improved rural access (2005-2008)