MSc Impact Evaluation for International Development

The degree offers familiarisation with and skills in the basics of modern evidence-based policy and impact evaluation, including: the contexts and practices of evaluation; research design and data production for evaluation; and basic and more advanced methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis; teaching materials are drawn from the development literature and iconic impact evaluation case studies; impact evaluation has become an important tool in development research and policy making, with multilateral and bilateral donor agencies and developing country governments widely committed to funding and utilising high quality impact evaluation evidence; evidence-based policy needs understandings of who benefits from interventions, by how much, why, and under what circumstances; it also needs to appreciate the costs and benefits of interventions and evaluations.