Value for Money?

Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfi nance credit ratingagency and business development, and author of numerous books and articles. He is the co-editor of What's Wrong with Microfinance? (Practical Action, 2007). Gerry Finnegan is currently Specialist and Proprietor at International Development Assistance, Belfast. In the past, he wasDirector of Lusaka Office; Representative for Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia at International Labour Organization (ILO) Director at International Labour Office.

Fore word; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; List of Boxes; Chapter 1. Introduction; Current Trends in Evaluation; The Structure of the Book; Chapter 2. What is Small Enterprise Development? The Variety. of Project Objectives; Chapter 3. The Evaluation of SED Training; Evaluation of EDPs; McClellandls Evaluation in lndia; The GTZ Survey of EDP Evaluation; The ILO ENTIMAN Survey; The ODA Study in lndia; Evaluation Study by Industrial Development Bank of lndia; The Stugy by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of lndia; Entrepreneurship Development in the Philippines; The CEFE Global Evaluation; Early Evaluations of CEFE in Nepal; Recent Evaluations of CEFE in Sri Lanka; Evaluation of the Graduate Entreprise Programme (GEP); Cranfield (UK); The ILO's "Improve Your Business" Programme (IYB); ILO's MATCOM Programme; Chapter 4. The Evaiuation of Technology Programmes; The Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG); Other Technology Programmes; Evaluation of Incubator Units; Chapter 5. Other Evaluation Experiences; Evaluation of ILO Programmes; World Bank Evaluation Studies; Evaluation of Other Programmes; NGO Programmes in Latin America and the Philippines; CARE'S Evaluation Framework; Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) in Pakistan; The SIDO/GTZ Crafts and Small Enterprises; Promotion (CSEP), Tanzania; Chapter 6. The Evaluation of Micro-Finance Programmes; Evaluation Issues for Micro-Finance Schemes; Evaluation Studies of Micro-Finance Schemes; Chapter 7. Outstanding Issues in Evaluation; Client as Customer; Who Benefits? Separating Effects; Whose Time-frame? Levels of Evaluation; A Hierarchy of Evaluation Measures; Training in Evaluation Techniques; Life Expectancy of Enterprises; Calculating Costs and Benefits; The Jury is Still Out on Small Enterprise Development; Chapter 8. The Mechanics of Evaluation; Who should Evaluate? When should Evaluation Take Place? What Measures Should Be Used? Evaluating Other Non-financial Support Programmes; Chapter 9. Guidelines for the Future; The MSE Registration and Evaluation Form; Summary Sheet of ILO's SYB programmes; MSE GroupJFIT Partner Evaluation Form; Bibliography