Development Policy and Impact Evaluation: Learning and Accountability in Private Sector Development

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Author/contributor
Title
Development Policy and Impact Evaluation: Learning and Accountability in Private Sector Development
Abstract
There is broad recognition of the challenges in evaluating policy and programmes on their contribution to sustainable development. Impact evaluations of PSD programmes are carried out at the behest of a particular configuration of interest groups with different expectations. Some groups want to know whether a programme has worked, others want to know how to do these programmes better, others fear that PSD programmes might result in sub-optimal or adverse development outcomes in recipient countries, and some want to be sure that the programme benefits the private sector in the donors' domestic economies. This chapter discusses these with reference to private sector development programmes and explores how contribution analysis, which is a structured stepwise process of theory-based evaluation, can address these challenges and generate findings to improve learning and accountability.
Book Title
Handbook of Development Policy
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Date
2021-09-07
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-83910-086-4
Short Title
Development Policy and Impact Evaluation
Accessed
17/12/2021, 14:51
Library Catalogue
opendocs.ids.ac.uk
Extra
Accepted: 2021-11-05T12:43:15Z Journal Abbreviation: Chapter 33: Development policy and impact evaluation: learning and accountability in private sector development DOI: 10.4337/9781839100871
Citation
Ton, G. (2021). Development Policy and Impact Evaluation: Learning and Accountability in Private Sector Development. In Handbook of Development Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16926