The participants will

• Master the difference between impact evaluation and other types of evaluation.

• Understand the difference between experimental and quasi-experimental methods, and why they matter.

• Identify the need and the usefulness of rigorous quantitative impact evaluation.

• Identify main requirements to perform and/or commission an impact evaluation.

• ... and more

Does your program work? How can you be sure? This workshop is a user-friendly introduction to rigorous quantitative impact evaluation methods (experimental & quasi-experimental), their scope and limitations. It provides a guided tour of complex methodologies for those who do not have – nor want to acquire – advanced training in statistics, but need to grasp fundamentals of impact evaluation methodology.

Are experimental methods the gold standard of evaluation? Are other methods valid and useful to answer questions about impact? What does that mean and why should we care? If you are interested in impact evaluation, but too afraid (of math and statistical formulae) to ask, this is the workshop for you.

Claudia Maldonado (MPA from Princeton; PhD from University of Notre Dame), a professor of Public Policy and Evaluation at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), and a member of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) in Mexico.

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Emerging evaluators, commissioners, policy-makers and development activists.

The workshop is intended to provide essential knowledge to professionals who are at the start of or in the early phases of their career in evaluation and to more experienced professionals who need a good refresher of quantitative methodologies for impact evaluation. It is designed for people with no advanced training in statistics that need a jargon-free roadmap to understand these methods.