Overview
Impact Assessment is a process through which AIACA
examines new and old initiatives for their potential
economic, social and environmental consequences on the
Indian craft sector in a defined geographical area.
Impact assessment is a set of logical steps and a tool
that prepares evidence on the benefits and costs of
possible interventions by assessing their potential
impact. The process includes surveys, case studies on
various client groups, enumerating best practices, and
generating reports on the study results from time to
time.
The purposes of Impact assessment are as follows:
- To assess the overall impact in the value chain of a producer group,
organization, or a cluster and how it contributed to the integrated
development of the artisans & their families involved in the craft process
over time. This includes changes in the asset base of the artisans, increase
or decrease in income over a period of time, increase in sales of the
enterprise or an artisan, holistic improvement in health, education, rights
etc. of the artisans and their families.
- To ensure that interventions are driven by specific outcome deliverables
that can be tracked over time.
- To predict social, economic, cultural, and organizational results of a
proposed activity and to reduce any adverse impacts from the activity to be
undertaken.
- To integrate & synchronize various decisions at the earliest stages of
activity planning.
- To compile database based on the impact assessment studies as a
benchmark for any future intervention done by AIACA or supported
organizations.
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