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What is the best approach to evaluate projects without baseline data?

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Question ajoutée par Simon Adeba , Team Lead, Monitoring and Evaluation , CBN South-South Entrepreneurship Development Centre
Date de publication: 2015/07/19
Ahmed Shalabi
par Ahmed Shalabi , PMO Manager , Miracles Group

Search the industry for similar projects and use them as benchmarks 

Rushd Momani
par Rushd Momani , Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst , CVT (The Center for Victims of Torture)

First of all, it's very difficult to accurately measure the evaluation of a project without a baseline or end-line. However, there might be an alternative work around - not as good, but it could work.

Depends on the project itself.

For instance, if it's related to a service given to beneficiaries (for well-being and psychological support for example) you can use a counterfactual indicators.

Basically, you select a new group of people who DIDN'T receive the service, or didn't benefit from the program, and another group of regular beneficiaries, the you just do a comparison between those two groups. This will show the effect of your project by measuring how good it did when compared to "what would could've happened if it wasn't implemented".

If you refer to a public service project, which could be impossible to find a regular group of beneficiaries, you can use either previous records from the government or another organization. Or you can use surveys or questionnaires to measure the satisfaction of the beneficiaries.

Rizwan Assainar
par Rizwan Assainar , BIM Project Engineer , DPR Construction

According to me, if there is no baseline data. Consider a project that is at it's best and compare the others to it until you receive an industry standard. Continuous development is required for prospering.