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A key outcome of this course is to teach you to put together an Impact Assessment Plan. An Impact Assessment Plan is a document that provides the overall strategy for assessing impact for a given programme as well as the manner in which that strategy will be implemented. Ideally, the Impact Assessment Plan is included as an annex to the programme documents and provides a sufficient level of detail so that the programme execution unit has enough information to implement the plan.
 * General assessment**

The assignments for the course provide experience in developing an Impact Assessment Plan. Each student will focus on a chosen case study for the entirety of the course. The plan includes several components and these will be built week-by-week during the course for your particular case study. The material provided each week will help you in completing this task, and the discussion forums will provide an opportunity to raise questions related to this task and to discuss any issues that arise.

For the first assignment, you are asked to identify the key indicators of impact for your selected case study and determine the sources of information for those indicators.As noted in two sessions that you completed for this week, this requires considering the theory of change of the programme, developing evaluation questions and going through the programme logic or results chain. The assignment requires that you do this for your selected case study.
 * Assignment 1**

Since the focus is on Impact Assessment, you will be focusing on the higher-order indicators including short and medium-term outcomes, long-term outcomes and impact. In order to identify these indicators, it is critical that you are familiar with progamme activities and outputs, but the assignment does not require you to identify indicators for these stages.

For the assignment, you are asked to complete the first two sections of an Impact Assessment Plan for your chosen case study. These sections are the Main Evaluation Questions and the Key Indicators. The information required in these sections and what you should include in your assignment is noted below.

This section of the Impact Assessment Plan should include the following information:
 * 1. Main Evaluation Question**
 * The main objective and components of the programme (the basic background needed for the theory of change)
 * The theory of change for the programme given the components of the programme
 * The key evaluation questions to be asked in the impact assessment given the theory of change
 * A discussion of possible unintended impacts that should also be considered in the assessment
 * The existence of any possible spillover effects that may result from the programme

This section of the Impact Assessment Plan should include the following information:
 * 2. Key indicators**
 * Key short, medium, and long-term outcomes as well as impact indicators of programme success
 * The vertical logic of these indicators
 * A very specific definition of all indicators (including the unit of analysis and any formulas) and how each individual indicator will be measured
 * The source of information for each of these indicators

The information will be summarized in a table.following the structure noted below. Following normal practice, impact indicators should be placed first, followed, by long, medium and short-term outcomes.

Table: Key Impact/Results Indicators
 * Indicator || Formula / Definition || Source ||