RESEARCH ARTICLE Cost-effectiveness of community-based gendered advisory services to farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania 1 2¤ 3 Tewodaj MoguesID *, Valerie Mueller , Florence Kondylis 1 Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, United States of America, 2 Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America, 3 Development Research Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America a1111111111 a1111111111 ¤ Current address: School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States a1111111111 of America. a1111111111 *
[email protected] a1111111111 Abstract Rigorous impact evaluations on agricultural interventions in the developing world have prolifer- OPEN ACCESS ated in research of recent years. Whereas increased care in causal identification in such analy- Citation: Mogues T, Mueller V, Kondylis F (2019) ses is beneficial and has improved the quality of research in this field, much of the literature still Cost-effectiveness of community-based gendered fails to investigate the costs needed to achieve any benefits identified. Such understanding, advisory services to farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania. PLoS ONE 14(3): however, would be crucial for drawing policy and programmatic conclusions from the research e0211448. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. and for informing the allocation of public investments. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) sub- pone.0211448 jects both the cost side and the effects side of agricultural and rural interventions to technical Editor: Puneet Dwivedi, University of Georgia, scrutiny and unifies both sides in order to compare the relative cost-effectiveness of different UNITED STATES modalities of a programme, of efforts to reach different target groups, or of efforts to achieve dif- Received: January 17, 2018 ferent outcomes.