Impact assessment and evaluation in agricultural research for development

2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation

TRANSFORMING IMPACT ASSESSMENT: BEGINNING THE QUIET REVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING AND CHANGE

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIE WATTS ◽  
DOUGLAS HORTON ◽  
BORU DOUTHWAITE ◽  
ROBERTO LA ROVERE ◽  
GRAHAM THIELE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Learning From Experience ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Institutional Learning ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
Consultative Group

SUMMARYScores of assessments of the impacts of agricultural research have been carried out over the years. However, few appear to have been used to improve decision making and the effectiveness of research programmes. The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative emerged within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), with the goal of strengthening learning from experience and using lessons to improve pro-poor innovation. It is testing approaches for expanding the contributions of impact assessment and evaluation to learning, decision making and improvement.

scholarly journals Understanding and evaluating the impact of integrated problem-oriented research programmes: Concepts and considerations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M Belcher ◽  
Karl Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Systems Transformation ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Researchers and research organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their work contributes to positive change and helps solve pressing societal challenges. There is a simultaneous trend towards more engaged transdisciplinary research that is complexity-aware and appreciates that change happens through systems transformation, not only through technological innovation. Appropriate evaluation approaches are needed to evidence research impact and generate learning for continual improvement. This is challenging in any research field, but especially for research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and intervenes in complex systems. Moreover, evaluation challenges at the project scale are compounded at the programme scale. The Forest, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) research programme serves as an example of this evolution in research approach and the resulting evaluation challenges. FTA research is responding to the demand for greater impact with more engaged research following multiple pathways. However, research impact assessment in the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) was developed in a technology-centric context where counterfactual approaches of causal inference (experimental and quasi-experimental) predominate. Relying solely on such approaches is inappropriate for evaluating research contributions that target policy and institutional change and systems transformation. Instead, we propose a multifaceted, multi-scale, theory-based evaluation approach. This includes nested project- and programme-scale theories of change (ToCs); research quality assessment; theory-based outcome evaluations to empirically test ToCs and assess policy, institutional, and practice influence; experimental and quasi-experimental impact of FTA-informed ‘large n’ innovations; ex ante impact assessment to estimate potential impacts at scale; and logically and plausibly linking programme-level outcomes to secondary data on development and conservation status.

Regulatory Scrutiny Board: A support for evidence-based policymaking in the European Commission

Evaluation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Veronica Gaffey
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Regulatory Scrutiny ◽  
Union Action ◽  
Policy Proposals

The European Commission has strengthened its requirements for impact assessment and evaluation over the years. In 2002, it introduced a requirement for impact assessments for new policy proposals and regulations. Such impact assessments had to define the need for European Union action and analyse a variety of options for action. In 2006, it established an Impact Assessment Board, made up of senior managers from across Commission directorates-general. The Board members worked part-time on the Board and did not sit in judgement on proposals from their own directorate-general.

Enhancing ex post impact assessment of agricultural research: the CGIAR experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Kelley ◽  
Jim Ryan ◽  
Hans Gregersen
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Ex Post

scholarly journals Sustainability Impact Assessment – An Overview with a Holistic and Transdisciplinary Perspective towards Agricultural Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savio Barros de Mendonca ◽  
Anne-Elisabeth Laques
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Managerial System ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

It is important to insert agricultural research in this paper by considering it as a strategic area for providing knowledge and a technological base for agricultural production, considering that this sector generates outcomes with respective impacts to rural zones, supply-chain, economy, society and environment, representing a key piece for reaching United Nations objectives of sustainable development to each country and to the planet. Aiming to analyze how agricultural research organizations (as for instance: INRA and CIRAD, from France and EMBRAPA, from Brazil) have driving sustainability impact assessment methodologies and their interaction with transdisciplinary and holistic principles, using as a base innovation concepts. This paper will display an overview on concepts and approaches about sustainability impact assessment, but looking from a transversal perspective, passing by an historical description on impact assessment and on concepts related to sustainable development and sustainability. We will search for unedited models of sustainability impact systems by converging holism, transdisciplinarity and sustainability. There are several methodologies but few demonstrate an integrated view with a transversal perspective. It is also imperceptible any concrete governance-managerial system for sustainability impact assessment, considering every stage of the process, from a strategic to an operational level, including, analyzing environment, economy and society dimensions as one unique perspective. Such as a complex and multidimensional sector of economy, agricultural research requires profiled sustainability impact assessment with an innovative and dynamic approach.

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