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Impact, Outcomes and Sustainability

Adrian Ely T2S Programme Meeting, Fukuoka, 23 September 2018

Ely, A. and Oxley, N. (2014) STEPS Centre Research: Our Approach to Impact, STEPS Working Paper 60, Brighton: STEPS Centre

• Framing ‘impact’
• Drivers of the

impact agenda

• Impact ‘Methods’
• Challenges and

Questions

10 minutes on…

Framing ‘impact’

• The metaphor and idea of impact
• A wide range of official definitions,

underpinned by procedures and structures

Drivers of the impact agenda

• Political justification and accountability
• ‘Value for money’ and resource allocation
• Understanding transformative change
• Institutional learning and reflection

Impact methods and approaches

Ex ante and ex post

• Experimental approaches
• Bibliometrics
• Theory of change
• Network mapping
• Participatory methods

PIPA and how we use it

Douthwaite, B. et al. (2007). "Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis: A Practical Application of Program Theory in Research-for-Development." Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 22(2): 127-159.

http://pipamethodology.pbworks.com

Challenges

• Time-frames
• Linguistic/ cultural/ socio-political differences
• Proportionality
• Accountability with learning

• Leah Temper (ACKnowl-EJ)
• Heila Lotz-Sisitka (T-learning)
• Seema Kulkarni (T2SGS)
• Samuel Codjoe (MISTY)
• Joao Porto de Albuquerque (Waterproofing Data)
• Sarah Moore (International Science Council)
• Erica Key (Belmont Forum)

Invited contributions

• What do we (research funders, managers and teams

and individual researchers) aim to achieve and leave behind?

• Why think about this from the start of a project?
• What really matters in short projects on long-term

transformation?

• How do we capture that in our monitoring and

evaluation frameworks?

• How does it change from beginning to end of the

process?

• What responsibilities do we have for the ending or

continuity of what we start?

Questions