Value Chain Design for Impact

Practical result measurement in accordance with the guidelines of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
There is an increasing demand for solid result measurement to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of development aid. The DCED has developed practical guidelines, based on proven good practice. Applying these guidelines improves project performance and enables you to communicate credible results.

Participants
You are working for a donor organization and you want efficient result measurement and credible impact from the programs you are funding. You are a project manager who wants to make use of result measurement for strategic learning and decision-making. You are an M&E specialist looking for practical guidelines how to conduct result measurement. You are a consultant confronted with questions from clients on good practice in result measurement for Private Sector Development.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to set up a practical result measurement system that can be used for internal learning and decision-making. You will learn how to translate complex activities into realistic causal impact models that lead to improved enterprise performance and poverty reduction, and how these can be used to predict impact, identify indicators, develop measurement plans and validate your assumptions. You will learn to make tradeoffs between the different research tools, how to analyze results and how to ensure the credibility of the final result.

Course Outline
Tuesday

• Introducing the DCED concepts and guidelines
• Analyse and design interventions with clear expectations of higher-level impact
• Develop impact models for interventions

Wednesday

• Completing impact models: indicators, assumptions and projections
• Developing measurement plans and selecting research tools
• Research tools; when is it good enough?
• Setting up a result measurement system: when, by whom, for what purpose

Thursday

• Interpreting results: result measurement as a management tool
• Measuring wider systemic change and more technical issues
• DCED guidelines and certification; next steps
• How to apply the system in your organization

The course is developed and conducted by Hans Posthumus Consultancy and Opportunity Unlimited.

Cost: 1,500 Euros

For more information and to register go to MDF’s website