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Why Development Impact Measurement Feels Like Guesswork

The donor evaluation form asks how many people we've 'lifted out of poverty' but I honestly have no idea how to measure that or if we've done it at all.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Quantitative requirements for qualitative change create pressure to fabricate certainty where none exists.

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