Impact assessment

OECD (2022) What is impact assessment?, OECD,OECD, March.

Impact assessment is a structured process for evaluating the impact of an intervention. Impact assessments can focus on an intervention's expected impact (ex-ante or prospective IA)impact assessment) or on its actual impact (ex-post or retrospective IA)impact assessment).^[1]

Impact assessment (IA) is a structured process for evaluating the impact of an intervention. IAImpact assessments can focus on an intervention's expected impact (ex-ante or prospective IA) or on its actual impact (ex-post or retrospective IA).^[1]

Impact assessment is sometimes contrasted with impact evaluation, which is understood to be broader in scope and includes impacts not considered in standard impact assessments.^[1]

Further reading

Fortuny, Loreley (2018) Impact assessment, International Association for Impact Assessment.

OECD (2022) What is impact assessment?, OECD, March.

Impact assessment (IA) is a structured process for evaluating the impact of an intervention. IA can focus on an intervention's expected impact (ex ex-ante or prospective IA) or on its actual impact (ex ex-post or retrospective IA).^[1]

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   OECD (2022) What is impact assessment?, OECD, March.

Impact assessment (IA) is a structured process for evaluating the impact of an activityintervention. IA can focus on an intervention's expected impact (ex ante or intervention.prospective IA) or on its actual impact (ex post or retrospective IA).

Impact assessment (IA) is "a meansa structured process for evaluating the impact of measuring the effectiveness of organisational activities and judging the significance of changes brought about by those activities",^[1] as well as cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis, which compare impacts and costs. The activities and interventions need not be tied to any specific organization. This could include posts which include impact assessments; which discuss pros, cons, and best practices for impact assessment;an activity or which discuss theories of change or forecasts of impacts, against which measured impacts could later be compared.intervention.

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   International Federation of Red Cross (2005) The problem of impact, IFRC, February 16.

cause prioritization | distribution of cost-effectiveness | intervention evaluation | less-discussed causes | org strategy | research methods | statistical methods | thinking at the margin | intervention evaluation | ITN framework | cost-effectiveness analysis

cause prioritization | distribution of cost-effectiveness | intervention evaluation | less-discussed causes | org strategy | research methods | statistical methods | thinking at the margin

Impact assessment is "a means of measuring the effectiveness of organisational activities and judging the significance of changes brought about by those activities" (International Federation of Red Cross 2005),^[1] as well as cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis, which compare impacts and costs. The activities and interventions need not be tied to any specific organization. This could include posts which include impact assessments; which discuss pros, cons, and best practices for impact assessment; or which discuss theories of change or forecasts of impacts, against which measured impacts could later be compared.

Bibliography

International Federation of Red Cross (2005) The problem of impact, IFRC, February 16.

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   International Federation of Red Cross (2005) The problem of impact, IFRC, February 16.

cause prioritization | intervention evaluation | less-discussed causes | org strategy | research methods | statistical methods | intervention evaluationthinking at the margin