Social Impact Analysis of Poverty Alleviation Programmes and Projects - A Contribution to the Debate on the Methodology of Evaluation in Development Co-operation (Hardcover)

Development organizations are searching for concepts and methods that will enable impacts of development co-operation to be recorded and scientifically tenable, transparent and practicable conclusions to be drawn. They expect the cost of evaluations to be proportional to the project budget. While a standardized set of tools is available for the economic and technical evaluation of projects, methods of covering the social dimension - which are of prime importance for impact analysis - have yet to reach maturity.