Identify areas of improvement and brush up on your technical and managerial skills:

• Evaluations of development cooperation impacts: the recurring dilemma of attribution versus contribution 
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches to impact evaluations
• Experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluation design
• Contribution, correlation, and longitudinal studies to evaluate the impact
• Methods of data collection, processing and analysis for impact evaluations
• Managing and utilizing the impact evaluation for decision making and development of new knowledge
• Economic analysis (cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses).

• A body of knowledge on theories of and approaches used to conduct impact evaluations of public policies, development programmes, and projects
• Methodologies and approaches to design impact evaluation using both: qualitative and quantitative data based design
• Criteria to decide which is the most appropriate impact evaluation methodology
• A process to plan, operationalize, budget, and manage an impact evaluation.

Work with your peers and expand your international network to access new resources, hone your skills and apply them immediately:

• Identify and engage relevant stakeholders throughout the impact evaluation process using technical and soft skills
• Select the most appropriate impact evaluation methodology to respond to the unique context of the intervention and to the prevailing constraints of data, time and money, and context.
• Design a customised impact evaluation scheme for the unique context of a development intervention of your choice.
• Build an operational plan to conduct the impact evaluation
• Collect, process, and analyse data to evaluate impact using quantitative and qualitative approaches
• Use impact evaluation results for informing decision-making and economic analyses.

This course is delivered through distance learning and deployed on the ITCILO e-campus. It frees you from the classroom and gives you the flexibility to complete the learning modules at your own pace and to carry-through weekly assignment within your schedule.

• Data analysis and evaluation skills are essential to professionals working in the public and development sectors.
• Employers that sponsor participants obtain the possibility to create an impact evaluation scheme for one of their development interventions.
• Successful Participants receive a professional certification attesting their capacity to effectively design and conduct impact evaluation.
• The programme was developed and is implemented by evaluation experts and practitioners, researchers and development cooperation managers.
• Participatory activities include self-guided modules, webinars, online forum, practical assignments, individualized coaching, and tutoring.
• Participants get permanent access to the e-Campus portal on impact evaluation, training material, and references.

• General concepts and considerations for evaluation
• Selecting the right approach and methodologies to design an impact evaluation
• A step-by-step approach to designing an impact evaluation
• Conceptualization of the impact evaluation scheme: purpose, scope, impact evaluation questions, and methodology
• Plan and use data collection methods and data management in the context of impact evaluations
• Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to assess programme or project intervention causality
• Organizing the impact evaluation: contracting and managing consultants
• Reporting, dissemination, and use of impact evaluation conclusions
• Engaging stakeholders in impact evaluations