Communicating the impact of development programs has been the Achilles' heel of governments and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) since development aid came into being almost a century ago. Impact enhances transparency and accountability, and facilitates learning and improvement. Even with digitalization, which has done technological wonders to data management, governments and NGOs can only continue to speculate about impact. Relying mainly on anecdotal information, which is rich but lacks hard data, governments and NGOs have struggled to provide incontrovertible evidence that their development programs have impacted the lives of their targeted demographics.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/162293/instead-of-costly-annual-reports-track-sdgs-to-assess-impact-of-development-programs

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