The ENABLE Nigeria case provides valuable experience based on three years of operation during which considerable

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• CASE STUDY (20 Marks)
• The ENABLE Nigeria case provides
  valuable experience based on three years of
  operation during which considerable effort has
  been paid to measuring impact and value for
  money. Supporting advocacy and dialogue by the
  business community requires a specific set of
  program interventions and monitoring and impact
  measures. The ENABLE program places strong
  emphasis on the business environment reform
  system. This refers to a core transaction or
  exchange between the private sector (which
  demands reform) and the public sector (which
  supplies reform). These transactions are
  underpinned by a set of support functions and
  rules (e.g., media, research). Thus, the
  challenge for measuring the results of reform is
  to show how the system has changed as a result of
  program interventions. ENABLE does this by
  describing the quantitative and qualitative
  changes to the way actors engage in reform.

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• For example, the number of structured
  engagements (i.e., 22 dialogues) between the
  public and private sector are measured over time,
  along with changes in the way these engagements
  are planned and conducted (e.g., better planned,
  more open, better informed). The relevance of the
  topics under discussion is also assessed. While
  ENABLE does not prescribe the topics its partners
  choose to discuss, it typically focuses on those
  considered to be a high priority for economic
  development. The focus on the BER system
  highlights the sustainability of reform efforts.
  ENABLE often refers to its approach to reform as
  a catalyst to systemic change, which once made,
  will have long term consequences on the potential
  of actors to participate more effectively. The
  program anticipates that it will undertake a
  long-term impact study into its interventions,
  but these have not yet been finalized and will
  ultimately depend on financial support from UK
  Aid. ENABLEs impact assessment process has a
  two-fold purpose. First, it is designed to
  provide robust evidence to donors and other
  external stakeholders regarding the programs
  Highveld impact.

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• Second, it performs a critical role in
  the design and management of program
  interventions. Measuring high-level impact, such
  as the number of substantive dialogues convened,
  is not considered sufficient. For example, it is
  also necessary to understand the capacity and
  incentives of local actors to convene and
  participate in PPD beyond ENABLEs lifecycle.
  This requires an impact assessment process that
  can measure the level of capacity of local
  partners, the degree of commitment and ownership
  among key stakeholders, the profitability of
  commercial service providers (e.g., research
  institutions), and the institutionalization of
  new activities (e.g., initiatives undertaken
  without ENABLEs support). ENABLE describes
  impact assessment as an integral part of its
  project planning system. Beginning with the
  design of program interventions, ENABLE
  encourages a coherent and strategic management of
  its activities. ENABLE ensures that from the
  outset, every intervention has a clear results
  framework, setting out how the intervention will
  contribute to sustainable and systemic change
  and, ultimately, purpose and goal level impacts.
  During implementation, the intent is that
  managers receive the right information at the
  right time, leading to better decision-making and
  resource-allocation.

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• A key tool to achieve this is the impact
  logic or results chain. Each of ENABLEs
  interventions, partnerships and portfolios has an
  impact logic, which sets out a causal map of
  expected changes. Change is mapped all the way
  from initial activities though to purpose level
  and goal level change. The program logical
  framework also serves as the basis of ENABLEs
  measurement planning. The impact logic describes
  each of the key changes that need to occur if an
  intervention is to achieve high-level impact the
  measurement plan measures whether or not this
  change has occurred in practice. By measuring
  change along the whole results chain, it is
  possible to pinpoint blockages or resistance, and
  managers can take action as necessary. ENABLE
  applies a number of recognized best practices in
  its measurement of high-level impact. This
  includes the use of baseline information that is
  collected prior to interventions. This
  information is based on both quantitative and
  qualitative indicators, which provide a fuller
  picture of impact. Furthermore, a range of
  strategies is used to demonstrate attribution.
  Here too, the results chain adds value by
  measuring change all the way along the causal
  chain a more convincing account of attribution
  can be made. While ENABLE veers away from the use
  of quasi-experimental approaches,

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• Answer the following question.
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• Q1. How the result of reform is measured by
  ENABLE Nigeria? Discuss.
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• Q2. What is the purpose of ENABLEs impact
  assessment? Explain

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