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Achieving Widespread Impact Achieving Widespread Impact CTA’s impact pathways based on 23 evaluation reports Volume 1 2016 02 | Achieving Widespread Impact 03 | Achieving Widespread Impact Contents Foreword 04 Part B: Impact narratives 26 EAFF: Eastern Africa Farmers Annexes 104 Federation 77 Acronyms 06 CTA’s Annual International Annex 1: Conference 2011, Nairobi 28 FANRPAN: Food, Agriculture Sources 104 Part A: Analysis of and Natural Resources Policy impact narratives 08 CTA’s Annual International Annex 2: Analysis Network 81 Conference 2012, Addis Ababa 33 CTA’s Theory of Change diagram 106 1. Summary 10 IPACC: Indigenous Peoples of CTA’s Agriculture, Rural Development Annex 3: 2. Background 12 Africa Co-ordinating Committee 86 and Youth in the Information Society Overview of impact narratives 108 3. Methodology 14 (ARDYIS) project 35 KENAFF: Kenya National Farmers’ Federation 90 4. Impact trends 16 CTA’s Participatory Three- Dimensional Modelling (P3DM) PROPAC: Plateforme Sous-Régionale 4.1 Beneficiaries 16 programme 38 des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale 93 4.2 Impact categories CTA’s portals 45 and indicators 17 RTN: Rwanda Telecentre Network 94 CTA’s Science, Technology and 4.3 Strategic goals 19 Innovation (ST&I) programme 48 RUFORUM: Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in 4.4 Regional distribution 19 CTA’s Spore magazine 55 Agriculture 97 5. A complementary way CTA’s web 2.0 capacity building 58 of looking at impacts 20 SPC: Secretariat of the AFRACA: African Rural and Pacific Community 99 5.1 Long-term impact 22 Agricultural Credit Association 61 WOUGNET: Women of 5.2 Medium-term impact 22 ANAFE: African Network for Uganda Network 102 5.3 Short-term impact 23 Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education 62 6. Limitations and lessons learnt 24 CaFAN: Caribbean Farmers Network 63 CARDI: Caribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute 72 04 | Foreword 05 | Achieving Widespread Impact The publication identified sharing of In this publication of impact narratives, Foreword evaluation lessons as one the most effective CTA’s Learning, Monitoring and ways of promoting learning in the Evaluation (LME) Unit is taking the development community (i.e. among practice of sharing evaluation lessons donor and implementing agencies). The to another level by seeking to make A ground-breaking publication by the Organisation publication warned that “mechanisms the messages relating to CTA’s impact for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for exchanging evaluation lessons are pathways more accessible to diverse still weak, and practical hurdles continue audiences through their brevity and by entitled Evaluation feedback for effective learning to get in the way of more frequent joint pulling together, in a single document, and accountability1, declared learning as the evaluations – which, when they do occur, the feedback from several reports. are generally seen as a very good way Through the compilation of 75 short and “new frontier” where a whole range of new of sharing lessons and methodologies”. precise impact narratives from the reports There is currently a growing number opportunities and challenges exist. of 23 evaluations conducted during the of documents available online dealing period 2013–2015, this volume of abstracts with the linkages between evaluation seeks to shed light on CTA’s impact and learning, including the article on pathways. The impact narratives ‘Lessons learned from evaluation’ issued highlighted in the abstracts relate to the by the United Nations Environment significant changes that evaluators have Programme (UNEP) and 2014 World noted through the feedback received Bank publication entitled Learning from the direct beneficiaries of CTA’s and results in World Bank Operations: interventions. These changes are grouped how the bank learns. into five main domains, respectively, As a learning organisation, the Technical human/technical capital, social capital, political Centre for Agricultural and Rural empowerment, wealth/income and improved Cooperation (CTA) strives to draw lessons natural resource management (NRM). The both from its successes and shortcomings. brief analysis of the impact narratives During the past four years, more than at provided in Part A that precedes the any time in its past, CTA has invested in abstracts (in Part B) provides more Centre-commissioned evaluations and information on these domains with their impact studies of its major activities and respective sub-domains (or specific programmes. As well as helping to identify indicators) and shows the benefits of specific achievements, these reviews have drawing on multiple evaluation reports also provided important lessons, many when trying to understand an of which have been used to improve organisation’s impact pathways. operations and in the development Dr Ibrahim Khadar of its strategic plans. Manager, Learning, Monitoring CTA strongly supports the stance and Evaluation (LME) Unit, CTA advocated in the OECD publication in favour of sharing evaluation lessons. For 1 OECD, 2001: No 5 Series on Evaluation and instance, CTA systematically publishes Effectiveness. The report is based on an international online the full text of the reports of its conference held in Japan in 2000. evaluations and joint impact studies. Left: Rita Matias, a farmer from Long village, in Tanzania. © Stephanie Malyon/CIAT. 06 | Acronyms 07 | Achieving Widespread Impact GIS Geographical Information System PIRAS Pacific Island Rural Agricultural Services Network GIZ Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit PROPAC Plateforme Sous-Régionale des Organisations Paysannes ICT Information and d’Afrique Centrale Communication Technologies PwM Partners with Melanesians Acronyms ICT4D Information and Communication Technologies for Development RIC Regional Information Centres IFAD International Fund for RIE Agricultural Development Network Caribbean Research Innovation A4Y Agriculture For Young CDEMA Caribbean Disaster and Entrepreneurship Network IFPRI International Food Policy Emergency Agency ACP Africa, Pacific and Caribbean Research Institute RTN Rwanda Telecentre Network Group of States CHF Canadian Hunger Foundation IICA Inter-American Institute for RUFORUM Regional Universities Forum for AFAAS African Forum for Agricultural COMESA Common Market for Eastern Cooperation on Agriculture Capacity Building in Agriculture Advisory Services and Southern Africa IPACC Indigenous Peoples of Africa SADC Southern African Development AFPAT Association for Indigenous COP17 17th Conference of the Parties Co-ordinating Committee Community Women and Peoples of Chad COTED Council for Trade and K4D Knowledge for Development SPC Secretariat of the Pacific Community AFRACA African Rural and Agricultural Economic Development KARI Kenya Agricultural SSA Swazi Sugar Association Credit Association CTA Technical Centre for Agricultural Research Institute ST&I Science Technology & Innovation AIFSHE Auditing Instrument for Food and Rural Cooperation KENAFF Kenya National Farmers’ TAE Tertiary Agricultural Education Security in Higher Education DOCIP Documentation Centre Federation TNC The Nature Conservancy AIS Agricultural Innovation Systems for Indigenous Peoples LME Learning, Monitoring and ToC Theory of Change ANAFE African Network for Agriculture, DRC Democratic Republic of Congo Evaluation (LME) department Agroforestry and Natural UNCSD United Nations Conference EAFF Eastern Africa Farmers Federation of CTA Resources Education on Sustainable Development EAGC East African Grain Council MEAS Modernised Extension ARD Agricultural research for Advisory Services UNDP United Nations Development development EC European Commission Programme NEPAD New Partnership for ARDYIS Agriculture, Rural Development and ECTAD Emergency Centre for Africa’s Development UNESCO United Nations Educational, Youth in the Information Society Transboundary Scientific and Cultural Organization Animal Diseases NGO Non-governmental organisation ASTI African Science, Technology UNFCCC United Nations Framework NRM Natural resource management and Innovation EDF European Development Fund Convention on Climate Change OECD Organisation for Economic CAADP Comprehensive African Agricultural EU European Union UNFFE Uganda National Farmers Federation Co-operation and Development Development Programme FANR Food, agriculture UNPFIL United Nations Permanent OECS Organisation of Eastern CABA Caribbean Agribusiness and natural resources Forum on Indigenous Issues Caribbean States Association FANRPAN Food, Agriculture and Natural UWI University of the West Indies P3DM Participatory Three-Dimensional CaFAN Caribbean Farmers Network Resources Policy Analysis Network Modelling VSG Association of Saamaka CANARI Caribbean Natural FAO Food and Agriculture Organization Traditional Authorities of the United Nations PAFCO Pacific Fishing Company Resources Institute WOUGNET Women of Uganda Network PAFPNet Pacific Agriculture and CARDI Caribbean Agriculture Research FLMMA Fiji Locally Managed Forestry Policy Network and Development Institute Marine Area PGIS Participatory Geographical CARICOM Caribbean Community GEF-SGP GEF-Small Grants Programme Information Systems CcIPA Capacity-centred Impact GFRAS Global Forum for Rural Pathway Analysis Advisory Services 08 | Part A: Analysis of impact narratives 09 | Achieving Widespread Impact Part A: Analysis of impact narratives 10 | Part A: Analysis of impact narratives 11 | Achieving Widespread Impact This report presents an analysis of impacts of CTA’s programmes and
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