Centre for Impact Evaluation

Here is a video of our presentation.

Here are some useful tools for measuring the impact of voluntary service on the volunteer, which I mentioned at the conference JUNE 9 – 10, 2008: INNOVATIONS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE VOLUNTEER SERVICE: Youth social inclusion for development in South Eastern Europe" and also at the CEV conference "Seminar on the promotion of local and international youth volunteering for peace building and conflict resolution in Europe", Sarajevo, 25-30 June 2008

INCA project: Intercultural Competence Assessment

- http://www.incaproject.org/tools.htm

An article not to miss if you are interested in how civil society organisations can be effective is: http://www.ssireview.org/images/articles/2007FA_feature_mcleod_grant_cru... "Creating High-Impact Nonprofits"

One thing (actually there are several, but here is one) we would really like to discuss with the OM community is the use of quantitative, likert-style questionnaires to measure progress on progress markers. We tried it for example in our Sida-funded and Sida-inspired recent evaluation of 6 civil society projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (which we have posted on the outcome mapping website) and found it very useful.
We want to present it briefly here, perhaps as a warmup to the forthcoming community discussion on progress markers, and also to get some feedback from you all at this early stage. If there is still interest, we would be happy to write up these ideas are bit more neatly. (By the way, if you are an old school "quantitative methods are the work of the devil" type of person, stop reading here. If like us you like to mix and match your methods, read on).

The way we did it was this:

This essay was written as an introduction to our book on the psychosocial consequences of war: www.psih.org/2000e.pdf , and in Bosnian at www.psih.org/2000b.pdf .

The research in this book attempts to outline the “psychosocial consequences of war”. Moreover, most of the intervention programs mentioned in this research de-scribe themselves as “psychosocial”. In place of an introduction, therefore, this short essay attempts a critical outline of this notion of “psychosocial”.

The problem