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Impact-oriented accompanying research

Learning from rigorous impact assessments is crucial to enhance the effectiveness of development interventions. As a partner of many implementing agencies, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) conducts rigorous impact assessments covering topics such as governance, social protection, taxation, digitalization and agriculture. The research presented here gives an overview of our work.

Our impact- oriented accompanying research projects aim at developing a long time working relationship between research and programmes that are implementing development interventions. Our aim is to facilitate a joint learning process while generating evidence-based findings from independent impact assessments. All our accompanying research projects include regular advisory exchanges with our partners and a solid dissemination strategy of impact assessment results. In our work, we employ mixed methods designs using mostly self-collected data sets. Randomized controlled trials and other quantitative methods are always combined with qualitative research techniques in order to assess the size of the impacts but also to show why and how impacts have evolved.

Team

Publications

Kohärenz stärken: wie ein integrierter Ansatz in der deutschen Afrikapolitik gelingen kann
Bergmann, Julian (2023)
published on www.megatrends-afrika.de, Blog Joint Futures 34, 13.12.2023

Working better together? A comparative assessment of five Team Europe Initiatives
Keijzer, Niels / Iliana Olivié / Marie Santillán O’Shea / Svea Koch / Gabriel Leiva (2023)
Madrid: Elcano Royal Institute

Learning from KfW’s ex-post evaluations? How conflicting objectives can limit their usefulness
Dörrbecker, Nicola M. (2023)
Discussion Paper 14/2023

Neue Standardindikatoren für die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Was bringen "Zahlen auf Knopfdruck"?
Janus, Heiner / Daniel Esser (2022)
Policy Brief 3/2022

Institutional change through development assistance: the comparative advantages of political and adaptive approaches
Roll, Michael (2021)
Discussion Paper 28/2021

Applying rigorous impact evaluation in GIZ governance programmes: results of a GIZ initiative on impacts in governance
Schiller, Armin von (2021)
Buchveröffentlichungen (2021), Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

How-to-note: rigorous impact evaluation in GIZ governance programmes - Why GIZ governance programmes should conduct impact assessments and how to get the most out of them
Schiller, Armin von (2021)
Buchveröffentlichungen (2021), Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Eine integrierte Perspektive auf die Wirksamkeit von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Janus, Heiner / Paul Marschall / Hannes Öhler (2020)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 11/2020

How to increase the uptake of development interventions? Considering the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Kaplan, Lennart C. / Jana Kuhnt / Katharina Richert / Sebastian Vollmer (2019)
Discussion Paper 10/2019

The potential of ICT‐supported participatory communication interventions to challenge local power dynamics: Lessons from the case of Togo
Breuer, Anita / Laura Blomenkemper / Stefan Kliesch / Franziska Salzer / Manuel Schädler / Valentin Schweinfurth / Stephen Virchow (2018)
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries 84 (3)

Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: assessing the effects on production and wellbeing
Biggeri, Mario / Francesco Burchi / Federico Ciani / Raoul Herrmann
Food Policy 79 (2018)

Unbundling the impacts of economic empowerment programmes: Experimental evidence from Malawi
Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2018)
Discussion Paper 32/2018

Lessons learnt from impact-oriented accompanying research: potentials and limitations to rigorously assessing the impact of governance programmes
Funk, Evelyn / Lisa Groß / Julia Leininger / Armin von Schiller (2018)
Discussion Paper 28/2018

Assessing the impact of governance programmes: GIZ support to citizen participation in local governance in Benin
Groß, Lisa (2018)
Discussion Paper 16/2018

Crowding out of solidarity? Public health insurance versus informal transfer networks in Ghana
Strupat, Christoph / Florian Klohn 2018
in: World Development 104 (4), 212-221

The joint effects of a health insurance and a public works scheme in rural Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem / Christoph Strupat / Francesco Burchi / Getnet Alemu / Arjun S. Bedi (2017)
IZA Discussion Paper Series 10939

Economic empowerment pilot project in Malawi: Qualitative survey report
Beierl, Stefan / Francesco Burchi / Christoph Strupat (2017)
Discussion Paper 15/2017

Decentralisation in Togo: the contribution of ICT-based participatory development approaches to strengthening local governance
Breuer, Anita / Laura Blomenkemper / Stefan Kliesch / Franziska Salzer / Manuel Schädler / Valentin Schweinfurth / Stephen Virchow (2017)
Discussion Paper 6/2017

Do targeted reproductive health services matter? The impact of a midwife program in Indonesia
Strupat, Christoph (2017)
in: Health Economics (online first) DOI: 10.1002/hec.3465

From protection to reduction? The impact of the public health insurance scheme on child labour in Ghana
Strupat, Christoph (2016)
Discussion Paper 16/2016

Can public works infrastructure affect employment outcomes? Evidence from the NREGS in India
Gehrke, Esther (2015)
Discussion Paper 9/2015

Non-open access

Linking social protection schemes: the joint effects of a public works and a health insurance programme in Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem / Christoph Strupat / Francesco Burchi / Getnet Alemu / Arjun S. Bedi (2019)
in: The Journal of Development Studies (Online first)

Can gender-targeted employment interventions help enhance community participation? Evidence from urban Togo
Breuer, Anita / Edward Asiedu (2017)
published on World Development 11 April 2017

Large-scale agricultural investments and smallholder welfare: a comparison of wage labor and outgrower channels in Tanzania
Herrmann, Raoul (2016)
in: World Development 90 (February), 294-310

Large-scale agro-industrial investments and rural poverty: evidence from sugarcane in Malawi
Herrmann, Raoul / Ulrike Grote (2015)
in: Journal of African Economies 24 (5), 645-676

Assessing the potential of ICTs for participatory development in Sub-Saharan Africa with evidence from urban Togo
Breuer, Anita / Jacob Groshek (2016)
published on International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society doi:10.1007/s10767-016-9235-5

The development project as an institution for agency and capability expansion: the case of the Njombe milk project
Burchi, Francesco / Pasquale De Muro / Sara Vicari (2015)
in: European Journal of Development Research 27 (1), 19-36

Impacts of a micro-enterprise clustering programme on firm performance in Ghana
Strupat, Christoph / Jörg Peters / Maximiliane Sievert (2015)
in: European Journal of Development Research 27 (1), 99-121

The entrepreneur makes a difference: Evidence on MSE upgrading factors from Egypt, India, and the Philippines
Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée / Loewe, Markus / Caroline Reeg (2015)
World Development 66(2), 118-130