Measuring impact - who counts?
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE) - Beyond good intentions
1 December 2007
Alliance magazine
Those who fund and implement aid programmes have a poor record of funding impact evaluations in order to learn what works and what doesn’t. Much more will be needed if aid programmes are going to systematically learn from experience and improve effectiveness. In fact, the knowledge generated by impact evaluations potentially benefits many more people than those directly involved in the programmes being evaluated, and to this extent can be seen as a public good. But how do you fund such public goods? The newly formed 3IE is an attempt to find an answer.
