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Measuring Achievements of Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments
behaviours of those who are directly involved in the programme, or who change their behaviour as a
result of improved incentives or environment created (at least partly) by the programme.. 77
Displacement: Some enterprises may be negatively affected because others are benefiting from
programme activities. Displacement is the amount of negative effect on those enterprises harmed by
programme activities. 78
Do No Harm: Ways in which international humanitarian and development assistance given in conflict
settings may be provided so that, rather than exacerbating and worsening the conflict, it helps local
people disengage from fighting and develop systems for settling the problems which prompt conflict
within their societies.
Evaluation: The systematic and objective assessment of an on-going or completed project, programme
or policy, its design, implementation and results. Evaluation also refers to the process of determining
the worth or significance of an activity, policy or program. An assessment, as systematic and objective as
possible, of a planned, on-going, or completed development intervention.
Impacts: Positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects produced by a development
intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended.
Intervention: A coherent set of activities that share a single results chain, and are designed to achieve a
specific and limited change. 79 A project usually manages multiple interventions and thus multiple results
chains.
Monitoring: A continuing function that uses systematic collection of data on specified indicators to
provide management and the main stakeholders of an ongoing development intervention with
indications of the extent of progress and achievement of objectives and progress in the use of allocated
funds.
Peacebuilding: Measures designed to consolidate peaceful relations and strengthen viable political,
socio-economic and cultural institutions capable of mediating conflict, and to strengthen other
mechanisms that will either create or support the necessary conditions for sustained peace. 80
Proxy indicator: An indicator for which measurable change is clearly and reliably correlated with an
indicator of a change that the programme aims to achieve (but is generally more practical to measure). 81
77 The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, The DCED Standard for Measuring Achievements in Private
Sector Development: Control Points and Compliance Criteria, Version VI, 2013, 15.
78 The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, The DCED Standard for Measuring Achievements in Private
Sector Development: Control Points and Compliance Criteria, Version VI, 2013, 16.
79 The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, The DCED Standard for Measuring Achievements in Private
Sector Development: Control Points and Compliance Criteria, Version VI, 2013, 16.
80 Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Peace Building Resource Pack, 5.
81 The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, The DCED Standard for Measuring Achievements in Private
Sector Development: Control Points and Compliance Criteria, Version VI, 2013, 17.
Practical Guidelines for Implementing the DCED Standard. Version 2, July 2013
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