Impact in my development language means a long-term sustainable change that is a result of a development intervention. Assessing impact is thus measuring whether this long-term and sustainable change has occured and whether it has occured as a result of a specific intervention.
Measuring impact of something tangible, like school construction project seems possible, but measuring the impact of an intangible process like "capacity building" can be quite challening.
If a consultant comes to interview me and asks me what is my impact - I would be unable to answer. Wanting to be polite I would think that the consultant's definiton of impact and concept of time, is very different from mine.
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Hi Liisa, thank you for dropping by my blog. It is nice to see a blog written by a person working in development. I will keep coming back to read some of your thoughts. Cheers.
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