What’s wrong with how we do impact evaluation?

World Bank Blog Submitted by Markus Goldstein On Thu, 02/11/2016. Click here to go to the World Bank Website

Neil Shah, Paul Wang, Andrew Fraker and Daniel Gastfriend of IDinsight, make a case for what they call decision focused impact evaluation. What, you may ask is a deciFinancial Educationsion focused impact evaluation? Shah and co. define it as one which “prioritises the implementer’s decision-making needs over potential contributions to global knowledge. They contrast these to what they call knowledge focused evaluations which are “those primarily designed to build global knowledge about development interventions and theory.”

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eConsultant2:Maputo and Antananarivo Household Survey

Deadline:29-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)Survey

The project will carry out a geo-referenced household survey in Greater Maputo and Antananarivo to gain some insights on the impact of and the trade-offs between location characteristics, welfare, risks, access to infrastructure and services, as well as land value.

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eConsultant2: TA for supporting Kenya’s devolution process

Deadline: 29-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

This consultancy will have three main objectives:

(a) to carry out an institutional review of how different counties are dealing with theSenegal-Woman-at-Well-800ir water utilities in providing water and sanitation services and provide some good practices from best performing counties and utilities, both nationally and internationally;
(b) to support Kiambu County to conceptualize and implement the clustering process; and
(c) develop material and organize forums to support knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning for counties nationally.

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eConsultant2: Development of e-government procurement Strategy

Deadline: 02-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Technical Assistance (TA) will help the government prepare itself with the different Financial Educationpreparatory tools, documents and capacities. Improving Readiness for e-Procurement – one of the components under the Grant includes the activities to develop e-GP Strategy, carry out extensive Business Process Reengineering (BPR) of the Procurement Processes and practices, development of e-GP guidelines, and development of business, functional and technical specifications and bidding document for the implementation of e-GP System in Zimbabwe.

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eConsultant2:Consultant on Crop Marketing Services

Deadline:  22-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Mobile in Africa

The scope of work will consist of three components:
1)Design of a training program on crop marketing and sales for grain and oilseed producers;
2)Provide grain and oilseed producers with market and analytical information;
3)Develop an innovative digital marketing and sales decision support tools for SME farmers.

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eConsultant2:TSU for Scaling up Rural Sanitation

Deadline: 23-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)Waste water plant

The objective of this assignment is to engage a firm to support a specific State Government establish Technical Support Units (TSU) at the state level for a period of 2 years, with a provision to extend services for one more year. The firm will provide services in one of the select state for TA.

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eConsultant2:Reducing rural land delimitation costs in Mozambique

Deadline: 28-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

IFC and its agribusiness client in Mozambique seek a consulting firm with experience in commsenegal_sdgs_blogunity land use planning and land delimitation in rural areas. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate and document a low cost methodology to delimit community and individual land in rural Mozambique. This methodology should include participatory land use planning, followed by land delimitation.

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eConsultant2:Agribusiness Mapping in Northern Nigeria

Deadline: 18-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

This assignment constitutes the opening phase of a process to improve the prospects for img_7478Aagribusiness in northern Nigeria. It aims to develop a clear understanding of the value chains in each of maize, rice, tomatoes, poultry and aquaculture as well as an understanding of the binding constraints to growth in those value chains. It will focus on four states in Northern Nigeria: Jigawa, Katsina, Kano and Kaduna.

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eConsultant2:STC Opportunity – Preparation of Transport Sector Handbook on Mass Transit.

Deadline: 15-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

STC Opportunity – Preparation of Transport Sector Handbook on Mass Transit. The GlobalIndia building Transport Group (CNGTR) of the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Department at IFC seeks the services of a Short Term Consultant (STC) for the preparation of a sector handbook covering Mass Transit. The level of effort needed is estimated as 60 working days. The assignment is scheduled to commence by March 1.
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Invitation to Healthcare Business International conference

Location: London

Dates: April 25-27, 2016

IFC is a sponsor of Healthcare Business International 2016, a big private healthcare conference taking place in London this year on April 25-27, and I thought I’d share with you some information about why you should join us at the conference.

Now in its sixth year, the event brings together the CEOs of private health and care operators from Europe and Emerging Markets, as well as many investors.  In 2016, the organisers expect 400 plus delegates, making this one of the biggest events focused on health care services worldwide.

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