ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an evaluation tool that can help evaluators focus on and assess equity aspects of an intervention, particularly the distribution of impacts and effects of interventions. It addresses the practical and methodological level of addressing equity in evaluation. The chapter shows the need to be able to measure progress toward enhancing equity for worst-off groups. It argues that the development and use of reach chains, and the accompanying theories of reach for each of the relevant target groups, would provide useful tools for evaluations. This tool address the issues, namely to examine equity considerations of the distributional impacts and effects of interventions and to importantly strengthen the design of the intervention to more effectively target the intended beneficiaries and reduce inequities. The tool provides a way to sensibly disaggregate more complex interventions by Ruprecht and Callegari.
