The staff and associates of Jackson and Associates frequently write for professional or academic audiences. Notable publications include:
Impact Investing
Landscape Studies
Harji, K. and E. T. Jackson. Accelerating Impact: Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry. Prepared for The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, July 2012
Koenig, A-N. and E.T. Jackson. Private Capital for Sustainable Development: Concepts, Issues and Options for Engagement in Impact Investing and Innovative Finance. Danida Evaluation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Copenhagen, 2016
Koenig, A. and E. Jackson. Mobilising Private Capital for Sustainable Development. Great Insights, 5(5), (European Centre for Development Policy Management), Maastricht, 2016
Gender and Development Finance
Jackson, E.T. and K. Alvarez. Catalytic Capital for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Report of the External Review of Component 2 of the Investing in Women Initiative. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, Dec. 2018
Jackson, E. Canada’s New DFI Should Lead on Gender Equality, The Hill Times, September 11, 2017
Voluntary Organizations
Jackson, E.T. Impact Investing: New Partnerships for Sustainable Development. World University Service of Canada (WUSC), Ottawa, 2017
Jackson, E.T. Social Enterprise and Post-Secondary Education Institutions: Optimizing Development Impact. World University Service of Canada (WUSC), Ottawa, 2019
Field Building
Jackson, E.T. and K. Harji. Assessing and Building the Field of Impact Investing: Five Thematic Briefs. Evaluation Office, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, 2013
Edward Jackson. The TV studio as ecosystem launchpad: Innovation in impact investing in Sri Lanka, The Daily FT, Colombo, August 3, 2018
Edward Jackson. Time to share the costs of participation in impact investing, IDS, October 9, 2018
Evaluation
Barnett, C., E. Jackson, P. O’Flynn, H. Ismaila and C. Agyeyomah, Understanding and optimising the social impact of venture capital: Three lessons from Ghana, African Evaluation Journal, Vol 6, No 2, a335, 13 November, 2018
Jackson, E. T. At the Nexus of Development and Finance, At the heart of development, Au Courant, June 2018, page 3
Jackson, E. T. and K. Harji, Impact Investing: Measuring Household Results in Rural West Africa, ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives 6.4, 2017, 53-66
Harji, K. and T. Jackson. Training and Curriculum in Evaluating Impact Investing. AEA365 Blog American Evaluation Association, March 3, 2017
Jackson, E.T. Interrogating the Theory of Change: Evaluating Impact Investing Where It Matters Most. Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, 3(2), 2013, 95-115
Jackson, E. T. and K. Harji. Evaluating Impact Investing: Resources and 24-Module Executive Course. E. T. Jackson and Associates Ltd., Ottawa, 2016
Reisman, J., R. Picciotto, E. Jackson, K. Harji, N. MacPherson and V. Olazabal. Streams of Social Impact Work: Building Bridges in a New Evaluation Era with Market-Oriented Players at the Table. Evaluation Office, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, 2015
K. Harji and E.T. Jackson. Facing Challenges, Building the Field: Improving the Measurement of the Social Impact of Market-Based Approaches, American Journal of Evaluation, 39(3), 2018, 396-401
Digital Jobs
Jackson, E.T. and B. Rowe. Tech Tonic: Are Development NGOs Ready For AI? ETJackson Blog, May 2019.
Harji, K. and E.T. Jackson. Developmental Evaluation in Practice: Lessons from Evaluating a Market-Based Employment Initiative. Evaluation Office, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, 2016
Youth Employment
Harji, K. and E. T. Jackson. Assessing Market-Based Solutions: Lessons from Evaluating a Youth Employment Initiative. Evaluation Office, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, 2016
Mastercard Foundation and E.T. Jackson and Associates. Youth at Work: Building Economic Opportunities for Young People in Africa. Toronto, 2015
Knowledge Management
Beaulieu, Denise. Diversity and Tension in Knowledge Production and Dissemination: A Closer Look at the Activities of Ten Ghanaian CSOs. Knowledge Management for Development Journal, 9 (2), 34-49. 2013
Governance
Jackson, E., A. Bichsel, G. Dijkstra and K. ter Horst. From Fuzzy to Clear: Tips from Evaluating the Swiss and Dutch Governance Programs. AEA 365 (American Evaluation Association), November 30, 2015
Jackson, E.T. The Evaluation of SDC’s Governance Programming and Mainstreaming: Highlights. Presented at the Meeting of the Evaluation Network of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, June 15, 2015. 11 p. Also presented to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, June 17, 2015 and to GIZ, Eichborn, June 18, 2015
Jackson, Edward T., John Saxby and Lilly Nicholls. “Evaluation of SDC’s Performance in Governance Programming and Mainstreaming.” Published by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2015
Jackson, Edward T., John Saxby and Lilly Nicholls. “Evaluation of SDC’s Performance in Governance Programming and Mainstreaming.” Published by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2015
Turcot, Paul. “Adaptation, Resilience and Transition: Report of the Formative Evaluation of Camp Management in the Burmese Refugee Camps in Thailand ” Prepared for CIDA, AUSAID and Act for Peace, 2012
Turcot, Paul. “Adaptation, Resilience and Transition: Report of the Formative Evaluation of Camp Management in the Burmese Refugee Camps in Thailand” Prepared for CIDA, AUSAID and Act for Peace, 2012
Turcot, Paul. “Adaptation, Resilience and Transition: Report of the Formative Evaluation of Camp Management in the Burmese Refugee Camps in Thailand” Prepared for CIDA, AUSAID and Act for Peace, 2012