Guidelines for Impact Monitoring in Economic and Employment Promotion Projects with Special Reference to Poverty Reduction Impacts Part II: How to Introduce and Carry out Impact Monitoring - Tips, Methods and Instruments

The first chapter describes six-steps in impact assessment and discusses the critical aspects in each of the steps.

• Identifying the goals of impact assessment;
• Identifying the areas of impact;
• Formulating impact hypothesis;
• Developing indicators for measuring impact;
• Selecting methods of data collection and collecting the corresponding information;
• Evaluating information and feedback.

The paper illustrates the structure of impact monitoring based on two case studies.

• The first case study is from El Salvador and the second one is from Guatemala;
• These case studies illustrate how to implement the six steps.

The final section describes different methods and instruments involved in implementing the six steps in any impact assessment project. Some of the points that are discussed in this chapter are provided below.

• Benchmarking;
• Beneficiary assessment;
• Stakeholder analysis;
• Participatory rural appraisal;
• Quality circle.