0. Assessing Outcomes & Impacts of Project Activities
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Peter D’Souza
Growth Team
Department for International Development
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1. Session Objectives By the end of the session you should understand
the difference between outputs, outcomes and impacts
the importance of demonstrating results
how you can apply this agenda to your work
what the outcomes and impacts of previous rounds of 7Up have been

2. The Results Chain Impact Outcomes Outputs Process Inputs
Funding & staffing
Training provided to competition advocates
Media campaign on benefits of competition
Competition law revised
Greater and fairer competition
Inputs
Process
Outputs
Outcomes
Impact

3. Why Measuring Outcomes & Impacts are Important
Outcomes and impacts are what matters
Outputs are a means to this end
Constitutes a target to focus and guide work
Demonstrates the project is working
Powerful advocacy tool
Funders need to see getting value for money

4. Quiz Are these activities, outputs, outcomes or impacts?
50 competition agency staff members trained
Public awareness of the value of fair market competition raised
Increased number of market studies performed by competition agency
10 workshops organised
Following a market study in the garment sector, new manufacturer enters production

5. The Logframe – a Management Tool
How progress & success will be measured
What
will be
How
will it be
measured?
Indicators
Verification
Impact Goal(s)
Outcomes
Objectives
What the project seeks to achieve
Assumptions
Factors that may affect progress & success
What the project will do & deliver
Outputs
Activities/ Process
Pre-conditions

6. Activity Break into groups of 3
Outline a chain activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts relating to your work
Identify indicators you could use for each level
Time allowance – 10 minutes

7. Logframe Example Greater and fairer competition
Objectives
Indicators
Greater and fairer competition
Market price of selected products
Impact Goal(s)
Competition agency performance improved
Number of market studies completed
Outcomes
Capacity of competition agency staff enhanced
Number of competition agency staff trained
Outputs
Training workshop held
Activities/ Process