Assessing the Contribution to Market System Change of the Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia

Bibliographic Data

ID11470834
AuthorsGiel Ton (0000-0003-1730-9517), Ben Taylor (0000-0003-1089-6886, Agora), Andrew Koleros (Mathematica Policy Research)
Year2022
Volume53
Issue1
Publication date2022-02-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIDS Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436
PublisherInstitute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.19088/1968-2022.105
OpenAlexW4210910887
LanguageEN
References cited6

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 conditions in which stakeholders take business decisions so that it triggers change processes in the wider social system and ultimately benefits poor people. An impact evaluation design for such a programme thus needs to be robust enough to adequately capture these systemic outcomes, acknowledging dynamic changes in intervention delivery as well as in market conditions over time. Theory-based evaluation can provide learning and accountability when it incorporates methods that allow a critical reflection on the key causal steps in an intervention’s theory of change. We present our learnings about indicators and methods to reflect on the importance of the contributions to market system change of a large M4P programme in Ethiopia

Accountability · Business · Economics · Impact evaluation · Livelihood · OpenAccess · Political science · Process management · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Theory of change · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Medicine · Psychology

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