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Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information
Service (EDIAIS) |
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Development Impact Assessment Information Service (EDIAIS)
is a central resource advising regional and country-based
DFID Enterprise Development Advisers (EDAs) on 'good practice,'
design and methods of impact assessment (IA).
The EDIAIS
aims to provide information and expertise in enterprise development
impact assessment to DFID and the wider development community.
Activities:
- Management
of web site providing information on integrated impact assessment
design and methodologies;
- Production
of written material for dissemination on the key issues
in ED impact assessment;
- Management
of studies on key areas of ED policy;
- Advice
for enterprise advisers in London and in the country offices
on development of IA strategies and assessing impact of
specific projects;
- Provision
of a communication network with other specialists, donors
and southern organisations.
Underlying
Principles:
- focus
on impact assessment methodologies adapted to the needs
of EDAs and DFID partners;
- focus
on practical application of IA, and dissemination of learning
from IA, across the range of EDD activities;
- a
multidimensional understanding of poverty elimination in
line with EDD's role in DFID's overall development objectives
of equitable and sustainable growth
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Web Resources : |
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Guidelines
for Assessing the Impact of Enabling Environment Programmes:
an Integrated Impact Assessment Approach (IIAA) and Handbook
to accompany Guidelines
conducted for DFID by WISE Development Ltd, April 2005 HTML
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Livelihoods
Through Micro-enterprise Services? Assessing Supply and Demand
Constraints for Microfinance in Ethiopia
Getaneh Gobezie for the Ethiopian Economic Association 3rd International
Conference on the Ethiopian Economy November 2005 PDF
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Overview
of IA and ED - basic information and guidance
about designing and carrying out impact assessments of enterprise
development |
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Information
Resources
- case studies, guidance notes and tools |
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DFID's
Approaches to Development - papers on Sustainable
Livelihoods, Human Rights and Making Markets Work |
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Enquiries
- email: info@enterprise-impact.org.uk |
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Newsletter
- focuses on a different area of enterprise impact
assessment each month |
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Discussion
Forum
- for registered users to exchange news and views |
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