Gracie Rosenbach David Spielman, Gilberthe Benimana conducted an in-person training in Kigali, Rwanda on how to evaluate and assess the impact of programs, projects, and policies. Students were acquainted with how the evaluation or impact assessment of program, project, and policy is designed and implemented to inform policy makers and development actors. The course's content comprised theoretical and practical parts to enable students/ trainees to have hands-on skills on program or policy evaluation. The teaching process was supported by case studies drawn in Rwanda and elsewhere to illustrate the needs, the functions, and the process of program and policy evaluation and impact assessment. The logic of training was mainly constituted by the explanation of different approaches and tools frequently used in impact assessment, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches: Difference-in-Difference (DiD), Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Propensity Score Matching (PSM), Average Treatment Effect (ATE), Multiple regression, and Instrumental Variable Models, among others. Of the 17 participants (15 male, 2 female) who attended the training, 15 were masters' students and will likely use the skills in their masters thesis.
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