Stories of Impact; Leveraging Qualitative Data to Uncover Impact

Many international development organizations rely on quantitative data to demonstrate their impact, reinforced by funder reporting structures. But qualitative research and storytelling can also uncover impacts on client lives by exploring causal mechanisms, capturing positive and negative unintended consequences, and even replacing original evaluation plans when projects change in unanticipated ways. iDE Ghana will share its recent experiences and lessons from experimenting with locally-led storytelling and the Most Significant Change method as a way to evaluate and adapt its programming.