Report of the Task Force on Impact Assessment

Report to MTM95 of a Task Force on Impact Assessment established by the Public Awareness and Resource Mobilization Committee (PARC). This document presents the conclusions of the Task Force to the CGIAR. It draws on the outcome of a workshop organized by the Task Force and held immediately prior to MTM95. Documentation on the workshop is contained in other records.The Task Force endorsed a systemwide impact assessment group to formulate and carry out an ongoing process of impact assessment and performance evaluation for public awareness purposes. Preliminary consideration was given to means of assuring the proposed group's credibility, objectivity, and independence, as well as defining its functions, governance, and relations to the CGIAR as a whole. Agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1995

Impact Assessment in the CGIAR

Interim commentary and working conclusions of a Task Force on Impact Assessment established by the Public Awareness and Resource Mobilization Committee (PARC). This document was prepared following two meetings of the Task Force, as an input to a workshop it organized on the eve of MTM95.The report provides a summary overview of the need for Systemwide impact assessment, and then comments on five topics: what the IARCs were currently doing; what impacts should be assessed and at what levels; how impact assessment was linked to public awareness and resource mobilization; what systematic process should be developed; and what type of mechanism would best served the needs of the CGIAR for impact assessment. On the last question, the conclusion was that a hierarchy of mechanisms would be needed, and the main burden of impact assessment should remain with the IARCs