Research & Evaluation

Impact assessments

Trace the change.
Question the link.

Explore outcomes, examine your programme’s contribution and understand what else shaped the change.

Explore an evidence pathway

Start with a clear account of what the programme set out to change.

Illustrative framework · the approach is agreed for each project.

Change is connected.
So is the evidence.

We examine outcome pathways, the strength of available evidence and other possible explanations. The assessment makes a careful distinction between observed change and the contribution that can reasonably be supported.