VC Learning Event Video Note: Elizabeth Dunn and Don Snodgrass on impact evaluations

In this video interview, Elizabeth Dunn and Don Snodgrass report about their session, "Learning and Evaluating Within Dynamic Systems," from the February 7-8, 2012 USAID Learning Event, "Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development." Read more about the session and check out the related resources here.

About the Presenters

Elizabeth Dunn, Impact LLC

Elizabeth Dunn is founder and president of Impact LLC, a firm providing research, evaluation and training services to improve economic opportunities for microentrepreneurs, small farmers and low-income households. For the past eight years she has worked with USAID’s AMAP project to promote economic growth with poverty reduction by integrating large numbers of low-income entrepreneurs and farmers into competitive value chains. Prior to that, she was a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri, a technical leader on USAID’s AIMS Project and lead evaluator for USDA’s CYFAR Project in Missouri. Other clients have included multilateral development agencies, international NGOs, host governments and corporations. Dunn earned her PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin and has more than 20 years of field research experience in developing countries.

Donald Snodgrass, DAI

Donald Snodgrass is a Principal Development Specialist at Development Alternatives, Inc. and an Institute Fellow Emeritus at Harvard University. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has researched, instructed, and provided technical assistance in economic development, microfinance, human resource development and poverty alleviation through various development assistance organizations, consulting firms, academic institutions, and think tanks. Snodgrass helped create the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) rural credit system in Indonesia in the 1970s, directed USAID’s Employment and Enterprise Policy Analysis Project in the 1980s, took an active part in the Assessing the Impact of Microenterprise Services Project in the 1990s and has been a principal researcher in the Private Sector Development Impact Assessment Initiative.