SOSC 3800 Chapter 4: Attribution_Impact-2

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3800
• Professor: Miguel Gonzalez

Document Summary

How to discover the degree to which any changes observed may be attributed to the actions of the organization; How to trace the concrete influence a particular intervention has had over a particular set of problems; How to measure net positive effects as they result directly from the activities of development agencies. Concrete, measurable changes in a particular socio-cultural / economic setting resulting from the interventions of a particular organization or development institution; The systematic analysis of the lasting or significant changes positive or negative, intended or not in people"s lives, brought about by a given action or series of actions. Development actions, if successful, improve peoples" lives via long, busy, discontinuous pathways; Tracing the connections is at best unreliable and at worst impossible; Limits the potential of endogenous actors in contributing to results (also important for local ownership of program components); Limits the potential for understanding how and why impact occurs;