Evaluation of Slum Upgrading Interventions - Methodological Approaches

Abstract. This work addresses slums definition according to UN-Habitat, and provides some

objectives of impact evaluation of slum upgrading projects. The main objective is to clarify the

importance behind the slum upgrading projects (interventions), through over viewing the slum

upgrading interventions and their main characteristics then summarize methodology of

evaluation studies. This paper gives an overview of counterfactual question, qualitative and

quantitative methodologies discusses main strategies to control bias in Quasi-experimental

approaches, and provides a summary about common past evaluation challenges and

recommendations which can be applied to future work.