Concrete examples that make the gap between current practice and good practice visible, actionable, and learnable. Teaching through showing, not telling.
Interactive, section-by-section annotations of sample impact reports. Each annotation links back to the relevant principle, showing where the assessment succeeds and where common weaknesses appear.
A multi-year intervention addressing maternal mortality through community health workers, facility upgrades, and referral strengthening. Strong on theory of change, weaker on attribution logic.
Technology-focused intervention providing tablets and teacher training across 200 schools. Strong on data collection, weaker on contextual sensitivity and proportionality.
Collective-based approach connecting smallholders to value chains. Excellent stakeholder engagement and reflexivity, but limited counterfactual reasoning.
Long-term ecological restoration combined with community water governance. Complex attribution challenges with strong methodological documentation.
Side-by-side comparisons of report excerpts before and after strengthening. Each covers a common weakness pattern, with explanation of what was changed and why.
"The project aimed to improve the quality of education in underserved communities by providing infrastructure support and teacher capacity building. The programme reached over 25,000 students across three districts."
"Learning outcomes in the target districts lagged state averages by 15 percentage points, driven by high teacher absenteeism and inadequate learning materials. The intervention hypothesised that structured classroom support, combined with community monitoring of teacher attendance, would improve grade-appropriate learning. This assumed district administration cooperation and stable teacher postings."
"As a result of our intervention, household incomes in the target villages increased by 34% over the project period. This demonstrates the significant impact of our livelihoods programme on rural poverty."
"Household incomes in target villages rose by 34%, compared to approximately 18% in neighbouring non-intervention villages over the same period. While the intervention's market linkage activities plausibly contributed to above-trend growth, concurrent government price support schemes and favourable monsoon conditions also played a role. We estimate the intervention's specific contribution at 8–12 percentage points of the total increase."
"All project targets were met or exceeded. The programme was successfully implemented across all target communities with high levels of beneficiary satisfaction."
"The programme's community mobilisation approach worked well in villages with existing self-help group networks but struggled in communities without prior collective action experience. In Year 2, the implementation team adapted by introducing facilitated village meetings before programme activities. Three villages were dropped from the programme due to sustained low engagement, raising questions about selection criteria that future programming should address."
The nine principles apply differently depending on sector context. These briefs show how each sector presents distinct measurement challenges — and how the Standard accommodates them.
Healthcare interventions present unique attribution challenges in multi-intervention environments where government health schemes, private providers, and CSR programmes operate simultaneously.
Educational outcomes manifest over years and decades, creating fundamental challenges for annual or programme-cycle impact assessment. The time-lag problem is central.
Livelihoods interventions must contend with market dynamics, seasonal variation, and the fundamental question of what constitutes "sustainable" economic change versus temporary income effects.
Environmental restoration operates on ecological timescales that far exceed programme cycles. Establishing meaningful baselines and counterfactuals is exceptionally challenging.
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