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Measuring Achievements of Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments
c) Believe that the targeting criteria were
correctly applied.
SME revenues
increase
Business
membership
organizations
(BMOs)
attract new
members
Significant imbalance in income
change between parties to the conflict
Parties to the conflict are excluded
from the BMO
BMO members compete for project
resources (e.g. training, per diems).
Change in SME net income (disaggregated by
relevant party to the conflict / geographic
region)
Participation in BMO (disaggregated by
relevant party to the conflict / geographic
region)
Percentage change in willingness to
economically interact with members of
conflicting communities
Reasons cited by non-members of BMOs for
not joining.
Number of conflicts caused by competition
for project resources.
2.1.3 Measuring positive effects of the project on the conflict
PSD projects wishing to have a positive impact on conflict should make this explicit in their results chains
and develop related indicators that are informed by the results of a conflict assessment and stakeholder
feedback. This ensures that your conflict indicators are closely tied to the logic of your project. It helps
to avoid vague, overarching indicators, while allowing you to trace changes related to your programme
and build a credible story for why you believe you have had a positive impact.
The table below illustrates indicators for three simplified results chains. 38 Each one depicts a different
strategy for increasing peace and stability based on varying assumptions about the source of conflict.
Different indicators are therefore required to assess the results chains’ validity. A range of indicators are
listed below for the results in the black and white boxes.
38 In practice, results chains are likely to have multiple levels and branches, as does this one.
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