Measuring impact

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, the international community increasingly relies on the private sector, both for mobilising additional finance and for project implementation. However, research…

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Measuring impact

The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index can help as a guiding tool for policy makers, and as a monitoring tool for projects and programmes that seek to tackle rural poverty by providing more specific data on people’s…

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Measuring impact

The standardised survey tool RHoMIS provides reliable indicators on rural households and helps guide international efforts to address smallholder challenges related to climate change, food security, nutrition, farm…

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Measuring impact

Just eleven years are left to achieve Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But not only are the SDG targets themselves ambitious. As our author explains, the United Nations also faces the huge challenge…

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Measuring impact

Agriculture can only reach its full potential to feed the masses, drive growth, and reduce poverty if decision-makers – including governments, private sector, and development organisations – have accurate data to make…

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Measuring impact

Against the background of food security strategies, over the past two decades, there has been a lively international debate on the quality of the statistical data in sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas there is general agreement…

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Measuring impact

Complex phenomena such as climate change require collecting, evaluating and relating extensive amounts of data from observation networks and research activities. For this purpose, the West African Science Service Centre…

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Measuring impact

Up-to-date and accurate data on agricultural holdings is an enabling tool for public and private investment as well as a core building block for relevant planning and monitoring in the agriculture sector. In this…

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Measuring impact

The debate about the impact of development co-operation is as old as development co-operation itself. The debate about the relevance of impact evaluations is a more recent phenomenon. Wouldn’t it be better to make use of…

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Measuring impact

No, it is not a Root Canal Treatment, although some sceptics view them similarly. RCT, or Randomised Controlled Trial, is an evaluation design which when applied to the right type of questions, done in the right way,…

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