Impact assessment is a structured process for evaluating the impact of an intervention. Impact assessments can focus on an intervention’s expected impact (ex-ante or prospective impact assessment) or on its actual impact (ex-post or retrospective impact assessment).[1]
Impact assessment is sometimes contrasted with impact evaluation, which is understood to be broader in scope and includes impacts not considered in standard impact assessments.[1]
Further reading
Fortuny, Loreley (2018) Impact assessment, International Association for Impact Assessment.
OECD (2022) What is impact assessment?, OECD, March.
Related entries
cause prioritization | distribution of cost-effectiveness | intervention evaluation | less-discussed causes | org strategy | research methods | statistical methods | thinking at the margin | intervention evaluation | ITN framework | cost-effectiveness analysis
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OECD (2022) What is impact assessment?, OECD, March.
Seems kind of similar to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/charity-evaluation
Yeah, I’ve been wondering about this entry for a while. Although it is not focused solely on evaluation of charities, given that we also have intervention evaluation and cause prioritization (as well as cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis) I wonder if we should remove/merge it. Do others have thoughts?