Methodological Challenges to Measuring Impact

1. lack of common framework and agreed outcomes

2. data accessibility issues
3. how do you prove a negative?
4. practical methods for measuring and evaluating
change along complex results chains
5. identifying suitable proxy measures for long term
change
6. Dealing with external effects (e.g. climate change)
7. perceived cost of cost of evaluation
8. Lack of baseline data
9. Moving beyond ‘what to measure’ to interpreting
data
10.How do we ensure consistency and quality in
measurements
11.Fitness for purpose of secondary-use data