Glossary

3ie International Initiative for Impact Evaluation [India, UK, USA]

AAER Adopt Adapt Expand Respond

ATA Agricultural Transformation Agency [Ethiopia]

BEAM Building Effective and Accessible Markets (Exchange) [UK]

BCF behaviour change framework

BoP bottom-of-the-pyramid / base-of-the-pyramid

BOOST Barley Organization of Supply and Training in South East and Central Oromia [Ethiopia]

CBI Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries [Netherlands]

CDI Centre for Development Impact [UK]

CGE computable general equilibrium

CMO context-mechanism-outcome

COM-B capabilities, opportunities and motivations for behaviour

CREATE Community Revenue Enhancement Through Agricultural Technology Extension [Netherlands]

CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies [USA]

CSR corporate social responsibility

D&D diagnostic and design

DCED Donor Committee for Enterprise Development [UK]

DEEPEN Developing Effective Private Education Nigeria

DFID Department for International Development [UK]

DGIS Directorate-General for International Development (of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands)

DGIS-RVO Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken-Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland [Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Netherlands Enterprise Agency]

EDRI Ethiopian Development Research Institute

EP Enterprise Partners [Ethiopia]

EQuALS Evaluation Quality Assurance and Learning Service [UK]

ESE Erasmus School of Economics [Netherlands]

EUCORD European Cooperative for Rural Development [Belgium]

FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office [UK]

FDFA Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

FSDK Financial Sector Deepening Trust Kenya

GAPS Graded Assessment of Private Schools [Nigeria]

GEMS Growth and Employment in States [UK/Nigeria]

GMP good manufacturing practices

GRAISEA Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South-East Asia [Oxfam]

HIPSTER Hawassa Industrial Park Sourcing and Training Employees in the Region [Ethiopia]

ICAI Independent Commission for Aid Impact [UK]

ICT information and communication technology

IDS Institute of Development Studies [UK]

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development [Italy]

IFC International Finance Corporation

IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute [USA]

INUS insufficient, non-redundant, unnecessary, sufficient (factor)

IP impact pathway

IOB Dutch Evaluation Office

ISEAL International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance [UK]

M4C Marker for Change

M4P Making Markets Work for the Poor

M&E monitoring and evaluation

MEL monitoring, evaluation and learning

MoFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Netherlands]

MRM monitoring and results measurement

MSD market systems development

MSI multi-stakeholder initiative

MSMEs micro, small and medium-sized enterprises

MSV mobile seed vendor

NMDP Nepal Market Development Programme

PCAF Private Capital Advisory Fund

PEPE Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia

PrC Partnerships Resource Centre [Netherlands]

PRIME Pioneering Real-time Impact Monitoring and Evaluation [Netherlands]

PSD private sector development

PUM Programma Uitzending Managers [Netherlands Senior Experts]

QuIP Qualitative Impact Protocol

R&A reflect and adapt

R&D research and development

SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

SDG Sustainable Development Goal

SHF smallholder farmer

SMEs small and medium-sized enterprises

TBE theory-based evaluation

ToC theory of change

UN United Nations

USAID United States Agency for International Development

WUR Wageningen University and Research [Netherlands]