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This is Daniel Suryadarma, again, replying to Dr Mario Pareja (message 76). 

While I take the point about data scarcity in developing countries, many social and environmental outcomes are still quantifiable. A quick look through World Development Indicators (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/all) proves this. And in impact evaluations, we should use these quantitative data as much as possible - including collecting primary data when necessary. As I said previously, solely relying on qualitative data does not allow an estimation of impact. 

[In Message 76, Mario wrote "In relation to the other, so-called controversial, statement in Message 70, i.e. "Without quantitative estimates, there is no impact evaluation": It sounds great on paper, but it is almost impossible to apply that rigorously in the field. With the exception of the economic dimension, in which you may have quantitative data, the social and environmental impact evaluations - at least in our developing nations in which data collection systems are not fully functional and complete - often require qualitative information gathered from the direct users of the technologies as well as from the field technicians. I will detail the ones we use in future messages"...Moderator].

Dr. Daniel Suryadarma
Senior Scientist - Impact Assessment
Center for International Forestry Research
P.O. Box 0113 BOCBD
Bogor 16000
Indonesia
www.cifor.org
e-mail: d.suryadarma (at) cgiar.org
www.danielsuryadarma.com
twitter.com/dsuryadarma

[One example of the use of the World Development Indicators, from the World Bank, in epIA is Thirtle, Lin and Piesse (2003) who used secondary data, mainly World Development Indicators, to investigate the impact of investments in agricultural research on poverty levels in 48 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Thirtle, C., Lin, L. and J. Piesse. 2003. The impact of research-led agricultural productivity growth on poverty reduction in Africa, Asia and Latin America. World Development 31: 1959-1975. http://impact.cgiar.org/pdf/158.pdf (300 KB)...Moderator].

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