Measuring and reporting results

Background

Little has been published on the results achieved in Private Sector Development (PSD) - even though those results are often very impressive. The Committee is therefore looking at ways to encourage more measurement of results - by piloting a new approach.

The background research to this new approach has been published in a Reader on Measuring and Reporting Results (available in English, French and Spanish). This study concluded that the insistence on rigour was preventing most programmes from publishing numbers that were approximately correct; the DCED is therefore looking at whether programmes could agree on a basic, minimum standard for measuring (approximate) results, which could ultimately be adopted on a multi-agency basis. The current version of that standard, agreed between 5 programmes (all working to develop value chains), can be downloaded below.

The Committee is currently looking to expand this initiative, and is offering a Training Course in September; please click on the link below to download the Flyer. More generally, it invites applications from programmes interested in piloting the DCED approach during 2009; the second llink below provides more information.