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Hi
I’ve attached a brief paper on realist impact evaluation.
Generally I think realists use the term ‘outcome’ generically, to include short term and longer term outcomes, at participant and population levels. Interestingly, the term ‘impact evaluation’ seems to be used differently in the international development and health sectors. In health, ‘impact’ is often used for short-term, immediate impacts and ‘outcome’ is used for longer term. In international development, ‘impact’ refers to longer term, population level impacts. The paper I’ve attached uses it in the international development sense.
Best wishes
Gill
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Dear realists
In the planning of data collection instruments for one policy evaluation we are working at, a question emerged regarding the possibility of measuring “impact” with realist evaluations.
If it were for me, I would answer “yes”, it does. However, one of the challenges in introducing these techniques in certain contexts (in Latin America positivist and empiricists dominate de conversation) is to convey policy makers that we can indeed use realist frameworks to measure and study the impact of programmes and policies.
Any ideas on papers or other bibliographic sources to clarify these concepts?
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