The Bangladesh foundry industry is a crucial element of the country's light engineering sector, but it suffers from reliance on outdated technologies, inefficient production processes, and an inability to diversify products. This smart lesson describes the challenges and lessons learned from...

Although many development partners have been discussing impact and evaluation for the last 30 years of international development, there still seems to be disagreement on indicators, impact, and how to collect the data, and discussions are ongoing. Evaluations and impact assessments are crucial...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) - South Asia Enterprise Development Facility's (SEDF's) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team developed a results-based performance measurement system in order to assess the effectiveness of Value Addition to Firms (VA2F) interventions. The system is based...