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Research and evaluation.
Producing credible evidence, up to and including impact evaluation, and supporting commissioners at every stage of the evaluation process.
Who it's forUN agencies, public institutions, partner firms
Entry offerQuality review of an inception report in five working days
StandardsUNEG Norms and Standards · OECD-DAC criteria · commissioners' evaluation manuals
3a · Evaluation management support, from ToR to dissemination
- Terms of referenceDrafting and reviewing ToR, with focused, realistic evaluation questions.
- Peer reviewAn independent review of the methodology and findings.
- Quality assuranceReview of inception and draft reports against the commissioner's quality assessment checklists.
- Data collectionRecruitment and training of enumerators, field supervision.
- Data processingProcessing and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
3b · Conducting evaluations
- Rapid evaluationsFindings within a few weeks to inform time-sensitive decisions.
- Evaluative reviewsA structured examination of a programme's performance.
- Impact evaluationsExperimental and quasi-experimental designs (difference-in-differences, matching, comparison groups), combined with qualitative methods.
Typical deliverables
Annotated quality assurance checklists
Clean, documented datasets
Inception reports that meet commissioners' quality standards
Evaluation reports aligned with UNEG Norms and Standards and the OECD-DAC criteria
For specialised skills, iLab draws on partners and associate experts (expert network (FR)).
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