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Measuring Achievements of Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments
2.3 Assessing likelihood of sustainable impact (Control Point 2.3)
The inclusion of indicators that assess the sustainability of project interventions pushes projects to
assess whether development interventions will lead to lasting change. The unpredictability and
fluctuations in CAEs makes the use of indicators of sustainability particularly important. Given the
devastating impact that conflict can have upon the private sector, monitoring the potential for conflict is
a critical aspect of sustainability. The indicators presented above can help in accomplishing this.
2.4 Managing indicators (Control Point 2.4)
During the course of project implementation, changes in
the CAE context and project learning based on
implementation results may both require changes to the
results chains. This may require different or additional
project indicators.
Relevant to
project logic
A common mistake in CAEs (and elsewhere) is to
overburden staff with indicators. Ensure indicators are
relevant to the logic of your project and that there is
capacity and budget to collect, analyse and use them.
Hard
collect
to
Easy
collect
to
One way to manage this is to plot all current indicators on
a grid like the one to the right, potentially as part of a
results measurement workshop. 42 Select indicators in the
top right of the graph that are relevant to the project
logic and easy to collect while avoiding those in the
bottom left.
Irrelevant to
project logic
Preference
Figure 4: Indicator Selection Tool
Tip!
Community members are often are best placed to understand what would represent an improvement in
peace in their particular context. Running workshops with them can be an important source of
information in the indicator development process. 43 For instance, in Nepal a community peacebuilding
project consulted community members to develop indicators for an economic development project.
They learned that being viewed as credit-worthy by local moneylenders was a critical early indicator that
the ultra poor had made economic gains. 44
2.5 Projections (Control Points 2.5)
Predicting the results of programme interventions provides staff with targets and a way to assess
whether interventions are proceeding as expected. They also enable up-front assessments of whether
the expected results of specific interventions are worth their investment.
42 RAND Europe, interview September 25, 2012.
43 Sartorius, Rolf and Christopher Carver. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Fragile States and Peacebuilding
Programs: Practical Tools for Improving Program Performance and Results, undated, 44.
44 McGrew, Laura, Community Peace building in Nepal: Lessons Learned, 2006, 11.
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