A holistic understanding of the impact of development interventions is critical for designing effective initiatives and efficiently allocating scares resources. Citizens, policy makers, program designers, funders and the ever broadening array of stakeholders engaged in development are increasingly questioning what changes development interventions have made, how and why. Stakeholders have committed to implementing more evidence-based development initiatives as a result of this urgent challenge. Yet, debates around what constitutes credible "evidence," the methodologies for generating credible evidence and how to use impact evaluation to support empowerment, learning, accountability and improvement persist.

iScale with the support of the Rockefeller Foundations is working to broaden and deepen the range of rigorous methods and approaches to impact evaluation that is credible, readily accessible, and useable by those working in development.  This project is reframing, reshaping and restructuring impact evaluation for development effectiveness by:

• Producing high-profile publications that consolidate existing rigorous and credible methods as well as the new generation of mixed-method approaches for impact evaluation for development together with readily accessible tools and references.
• Expanding the global community of practice of development practitioners, new generation mixed-methods evaluation practitioners, action-learners, donors, and others with an interest in understanding the effects of development interventions.

iScale and its partners continue to make key contributions to high profile evaluation events and forums like the recent Perspective on Impact Evaluation Conference in Cairo, Egypt. A white paper and journal article are forthcoming.

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