Thread:Impact Assessment of BDS and Training Programmes (1)

Dear All,

Good evening and many thanks to all who contributed to the previous topic on sustaining BDS programmes. Great to come back again with another important related issue. This one perhaps will be a bit technical but we will all bring it down. It is on impact assessment of BDS or training programmes. I say this as we can agree that whatever we do, we need to show results. Impact, which should be measured. How can we measure impact of BDS interventions? What are the core indicators we can agree on to use in measuring impact of a standard youth enntrepnership programme? Number of new businesses created, number of jobs, increased incomes for existing business? What others can we suggest? What impact assessment methods have we used?. What is your take with impact assessment methodology of using control group (a similar group where there is no intervention introduced) and treatment groups (a similar group where the project initiates some interventions) in impact assessment of BDS and training programmes in order to compare results? How feasible is it? Let us share experiences, information and leads on how we can shape the thought process on this for the benefit of ourselves and our projects. Thanks. Jealous