Volume 53. Issue 1: Theory-Based Evaluation of Inclusive Business Programmes
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Theory-Based Evaluation of Inclusive Business Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)Increasingly, development funding is directed to programmes aiming to make market systems more favourable for smallholders and low-income consumers of food. The development outcomes of these programmes are not self-evident. ... -
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(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)This is the notes on contributors for IDS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1: Theory-Based Evaluation of Inclusive Business Programmes. -
Introduction: Contribution, Causality, Context, and Contingency when Evaluating Inclusive Business Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)The private sector has become an important partner in development interventions that aim to make market systems more favourable for smallholders and low-income consumers of food. How to evaluate these inclusive business ... -
Systems, Sapiens, and Systemic Change in Markets: The Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond Framework
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)Systemic change is universally desirable and poorly defined. This article seeks to refine a practitioner-developed framework – Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond (AAER) – for conceptualising systemic change, and offers case studies ... -
Using Theory-Based Evaluation (TBE) to Evaluate Systemic Change in a Market Systems Programme in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)The complexities of markets and market environments are felt in the design and the evaluation of market systems development (MSD) programmes. The authors reflect on a recent evaluation of an MSD programme in Nepal in which ... -
Assessing the Contribution to Market System Change of the Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)An impact evaluation of a pro-poor market system development programme, ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ (M4P), poses several methodological issues for evaluators. M4P interventions intend to change the contextual ... -
The Search for Real-Time Impact Monitoring for Private Sector Support Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)An increasing consensus exists in the impact evaluation literature on using detailed theory-based evaluations to evaluate complex programmes such as private sector development (PSD) programmes. At the same time, PSD managers ... -
Monitoring Systemic Change in Inclusive Agribusiness
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)Evaluations of private sector development programmes look at what changed to the workings of the system, and whether these changes are scalable, resilient, and sustainable. We present an evaluation lens that primarily ... -
Assessing Contributions Collaboratively: Using Process Tracing to Capture Crowding In
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)If inclusive business is to realise wide and sustained development impacts, it is likely to depend on crowding in of other public and private actors. Assessing the contribution of inclusive business to crowding in is ... -
Understanding Behaviour Change in Theory-Based Evaluation of Market Systems Development Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)Market systems development (MSD) programmes aim to influence private actor behaviour to promote markets that work better for the poor. This article aims to inform theory-based evaluation (TBE) of such programmes, arguing ... -
Glossary
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-01)This is the glossary for IDS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1: Theory-Based Evaluation of Inclusive Business Programmes.