This paper from the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GRDRC) provides a detailed discussion of using both qualitative and quantitative methods in impact evaluation.
Contents
- The policy context: Tackling the evaluation gap
- From principles to practice
- Challenges to doing more and better impact evaluations
- Opportunities
- Quantitative and qualitative research: Clarifying the terminology
- Utilising quantitative and qualitative approaches in impact evaluation
- Combining methods in impact evaluation
- Measuring qualitative impacts
- Operationalising combined methods for impact evaluation
- Measuring qualitative impacts 34
- Governance 34
- Empowerment 35
- Social capital 37
- Social exclusion
Sources
Garbarino, S., & Holland, J. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GRDRC), (2009). Quantitative and qualitative methods in impact evaluation and measuring results. Retrieved from website: http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/EIRS4.pdf