Measurement & Evaluation

Performance measurement and program evaluation help clients gather performance data, assess results, and adapt their programs to be more effective over time. IEc is a recognized national leader in the field of program evaluation, and has been nominated twice for the American Evaluation Associations’ Ava and Gunnar Myrdal Government Evaluation Award. IEc has extensive experience evaluating federal and state, NGO, and utility programs. We are accustomed to challenges such as working with difficult and incomplete data sets, and evaluating programs with complex intervention logic. We have experience with all manner of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs, and we regularly plan and implement mixed-methods evaluations. We have developed evaluation guidance for clients including the U.S. EPA, United Nations Environmental Program, and the Small Business Administration. Our services include:

• Logic modeling and barriers analysis;
• Development of performance metrics;
• Evaluability assessment and evaluation planning and scoping;
• Data collection planning and data management infrastructure;
• Greenhouse gas, water, and waste inventories;
• Survey research;
• Process, market, and impact evaluation;
• Evaluation guidelines development;
• Trainings on evaluation and related topics;
• Evaluation oversight; and.
• Data visualization and report production.

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