Criteria for Impact Assessment & Evaluation
“Evaluation is not the end of a project, but the beginning of learning and lasting change.”
SR Asia conducts comprehensive Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and Impact Assessment (IA) studies to evaluate community development, CSR effectiveness, and sustainability initiatives.
These assessments are crucial tools for understanding both the quantitative outcomes and qualitative changes driven by corporate, government, or donor-led interventions — ensuring decisions are informed by evidence, inclusivity, and accountability.
Through a blend of participatory methods, data analytics, and stakeholder engagement, SR Asia ensures every study aligns with global development frameworks such as the UN SDGs, ESG principles, and OECD-DAC evaluation criteria.
A comprehensive framework for identifying and prioritizing community development needs
As a responsible corporate entity with thrust on Community Development, an organisation focuses on implementing various Community Development programmes in the affected / neighbouring villages. To accomplish this mission, it is imperative to carry out Need Assessment Survey (NAS) to identify social, economic and cultural needs of the villages, societies that can facilitate in formulating a comprehensive long-term development programmes.
It's a way of assessing of what the group or community members see as their most important needs for improving community life. The results of the survey then guide future actions. Generally, the needs that are rated most important are the one that get addressed on priority.
Needs could be of three kinds:
Immediate requirements in day-to-day life. Unfulfillment of these needs restricts people's capacity to realize their full potential.
Needs perceived by outsiders, often not real or critical. Programmes based on them often fail to mobilize people or achieve sustainability.
Needs influenced by local leaders for their own benefit rather than community good. Deliberately designed by the creamy layer for personal gain.
Key Principle: The NAS must make clear-cut distinctions between different kinds of needs and prioritize felt needs based on criticality.
Primary Objectives
To learn more about what group or community needs are, to get a more honest and objective description of needs than people might tell publicly, to become aware of possible needs that can never be seen or perceived as non-existent, to document needs as received in many applications, to make sure any activities undertaken are inline with the needs that are expressed by the community.
Secondary Reasons
Community Support
To get more group and community support for the actions that will be undertaken.
Community Participation
To get "Community Participation" and more people involved in the subsequent action itself.
Further, the NAS critically analyses the gaps between needs and available resources in terms of government/local bodies, an organisation's erstwhile/existing interventions to avoid wastage of resources because of duplicity.
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