INTRODUCTION
Impact evaluation entails determining how projects, programs, or regulations have changed things. This covered both intentional and unintentional interventions. This course aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct impact evaluations of the programs, policies, or initiatives that interest them. A participant should be able to conduct a thorough impact assessment of certain interventions by the end of the course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Participants will be able to:
- Recognize impact evaluation theories and techniques after completing this course.
- Understanding assessment issues (biases in placement, attribution, and selection) and explaining IE designs
- Conduct a project impact assessment.
- Become familiar with the econometric methods for impact evaluation.
- Perform impact data analysis utilizing Propensity Matching and Difference-in-Difference
- Report and share effect evaluation findings
DURATION
5 Days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is intended for project employees, researchers, managers, professionals in development, government policy makers, NGOs, and development agencies who want to determine the effects of certain interventions.
COURSE OUTLINE
Impact Evaluation Introduction
- Meaning of impact evaluation
- Impact evaluation attribution
- Attribution versus contribution
Impact Evaluation
- Forms of evaluation
- Theories of Change
- Hypothesis of evaluation
- Indicators of impact evaluation
Impact Evaluation Counterfactuals
- Causal reference
- Counterfactuals and comparison groups
- Counterfactual estimation in impact evaluation
- Impact Evaluation without comparison and baseline data
Impact Evaluation Research Designs
- Experimental Design
o Randomized Control Trials
- Quasi experimental designs
o Difference-in-Difference
o Regression Discontinuity
o Matching
- Non-experimental designs
Impact Evaluation Sampling
- Impact Evaluation sampling techniques
- Calculation of sample size,
- Sampling weight
- Statistical power
- Development of comparison groups
Impact Evaluation Quantitative Data Analysis
Randomized Impact Evaluation
- Developing counterfactual
- Randomization
- Program Placement impacts
- Program Participation impacts
- Integrating Program Placement and Participation
- Spillover Effects Measurements
Propensity Score Matching Technique (PSM)
- PSM introduction
- PSM in Impact Evaluation
- Developing propensity scores
- Matching Analysis (Nearest-Neighbour, Stratification, Radius, Kernel )
- Doubly Robust Estimation
Difference in Difference Method
- Introduction to DID
- DID in Impact Evaluation
- DID estimator: (Single DID, DID with covariates, Quantile DID)
- DID for Cross-Sectional Data
- Balancing Tests
- Diff-in-Diff with Propensity Score Matching
Qualitative Approaches in Impact Evaluation
- Significant Change
- Outcome Mapping
- Outcome Harvesting
- Appreciative Inquiry
Impact Evaluation findings Development and Dissemination
- Impact Evaluation Plan
- Impact Evaluation Reports: Baseline report, Impact Evaluation Reports
- Case studies
GENERAL NOTES
- Our seasoned instructors, who have years of experience as seasoned professionals in their respective fields of work, will be teaching this course. A combination of practical exercises, theory, group projects, and case studies are used to teach the course.
- The participants receive training manuals and supplementary reading materials.
- Participants who complete this course successfully will receive a certificate.
- We can also create a course specifically for your organization to match your needs. To learn more, get in touch with us at training@dealsontrainers.org.
- The training will take place at DEALSON TRAINERS IN NAIROBI, KENYA in Nairobi, Kenya.
- The training fee includes lunch, course materials, and lodging for the training session. Upon request, we may arrange for our participants' lodging and transportation to the airport.
- Payment must be made to our bank account before the training begins, and documentation of payment should be emailed to training@dealsontrainers.org