Measuring Impacts   The Entrepreneurship Training Workshop (ETW), with its behavioural training approach, is based on the principle of strengthening key entrepreneurial competencies that influence the way entrepreneurs manage and run their businesses. Over a period of almost 20 years, there has been overwhelming evidence from EMPRETEC Centres around the world of positive impacts on entrepreneurship development. The core ETW receives extremely positive feedback from former participants, who praise its "eyeopening" approach. Despite this positive feedback, no comprehensive and standardized evaluation across Centres has yet been conducted to demonstrate the many advantages and benefits of the EMPRETEC concept.                   The Impact Assessment Project   To address this deficit, a standardized “impact assessment” approach was developed by UNCTAD in cooperation with the University of Oxford, which focuses on measuring ETW impacts in two areas:   1) Changes in participants' entrepreneurial competencies; and 2) Changes in participants' business performance   The methodology is based on a "before–after" comparison of key variables, including changes in scores for Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECs) and a variety of indicators on business characteristics and business performance. These indicators are measured before the training and at two reassessments four and eight months after the training.    The assessment is open to all Centres, with the possibility of joining at any time. The assessment will be conducted by Centres on a continuous basis and will allow sufficient flexibility for adaptation to centre–specific needs and training schedules.   One assessment cycle lasts for about 8 months from the date of the Entrepreneurship Training Workshop to the completion of the second re-assessment.

Background Documents     Background Note Conducting Impact Assessments       Project Note Project Proposal         Impact Assessment Indicators