Impact Assessment as Viable Instrument for Poverty Reduction: Post-Hoc Review on Societal Impacts of Two Power Generation Projects

2003 ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Mikiyasu Nakayama ◽  
Ryo Fujikura
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Societal Impacts ◽  
Post Hoc

scholarly journals Impact Assessment of Women Farmer Activity on Poverty Reduction and Food Security: A Case of Kindia Region/Guinea

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moussa Moussa ◽  
Yali Wen ◽  
Hongmei Wu ◽  
Mory Diakite ◽  
Kampungu K Gerson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Poverty Reduction

scholarly journals Societal Impacts of Cyber Security Assets of Project ECHO

2022 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 1274-1283
Author(s):  
Harri Ruoslahti ◽  
Bríd Davis
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Project Echo ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Societal Impacts

Solutions on both consumer and state levels have become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks by e.g. malware, phishing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. As the adoption and integration of information technologies are increasing and solutions are developing, the need to invest in cyber-security is at an all-time high. Investment in cybersecurity is a chief priority within the European Union, and project ECHO is a one initiative that put emphasis on devising, elaborating, implementing and enhancing a series of technological solutions (assets) to counteract cyber-attacks. The research problem of this study is what societal impacts do the ECHO assets have as product, as knowledge use, and as benefits to society. The literature review includes theory and practice from academic papers, EU innovation project and professional reports, and some ECHO project workflows. Relevant academic theoretical approaches that provide a basis for this task are: e-skills and training, Organisational Learning (OL), Societal Impact (SI), Societal Impact Assessment (SIA). This is a qualitative pilot study that evaluates the usefulness of employing a Product/ Knowledge/ Benefit Societal Impact framework to assessment of societal impacts. Data collection involved qualitative participatory observation of a co-creative expert hackathon workshop. This pilot study shows that the methodology path, where societal impact of ICT and AI solutions (e.g. the ECHO assets) are examined as these three elements (product, knowledge use, societal benefit). This pilot study serves as a step to validate this path and design and select practical, rigorous and relevant quantitative methodology to further the understanding of both societal impact assessment of cyber, e-, and AI-based solutions and services. To incorporate societal impacts with cyber and e-skills this study recommends developing and refining actual key performance indicators (KPI) to provide a basis for rigorous and relevant qualitative and quantitative questionnaire based inquiry of cyber, e-, and AI-based solutions and services.

scholarly journals Review on Farmers’ Microfinance Services Participation and Its Impact on Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 04-15
Author(s):  
Ejigu Mulatu
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
The Impact

The financial sector has enabling role for agriculture as credit is used for investments and savings ensure a safe storage of money. In Ethiopia, regarding microfinance service provision, consecutive reforms were made to sustain the service. However, utilization of the service among the community is at low-level and affected by a different factors. This review was crucial to review different research works on how farmers participate in the microfinance services and it is necessary to assess the determinants of farmers’ participation in microfinance services and evaluate its impact on clients poverty reduction. Despite the increased outreach and expanded service provision of microfinance in Ethiopia, the agricultural sector has low financial service provided due to clients and the institution related characteristics.The major objective of this review was to review farmers’ Microfinance services participation and its impact on poverty reduction in Ethiopia. Significant variation across different microfinance impact studies on methodological, analytical, conceptual and outcome variable selection has been happened. These conditions resulted in limited evidence about real impact of microfinance service due to scope, reliability, quality and ability to generalize the findings. Therefore, this review findings argue for further investment in impact assessment through broadening the criteria on which the impact is assessed and generalization is made for further policy directions.

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