Azzarri, Carlo

Haile, Beliyou

Shee, Apurba

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Africa RISING phase 2 monitoring and evaluation framework Beliyou Haile, Carlo Azzarri, Apurba SheeM&E team, IFPRIAfrica RISING East and Southern Africa Phase II Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5-8 October 2016Overview1. Summary of Phase I achievements2. Phase I challenges and lessons learned3. M&E for Phase II: monitoring4. M&E for Phase II: evaluation5. Conclusions1. Summary of Phase I achievements/1  Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT): two rounds of in-country trainings (70+ researchers and 3 rounds of FtF data reporting)  AR data management and accompanying tools in CKAN (with ILRI) (65 uploads so far)   Africa RISING Baseline Evaluation Surveys (ARBES): Quasi-experimental design; 5 countries; 4,510 hhs; 81 program and 76 control villages 30+ program beneficiaries/requestors of ARBES data (+ hundreds downloads) ARBES survey reports (comparable snapshots of farming systems/livelihoods in 5 countries) ARBES-based household typologies ARBES-based research studies MWI and TZA: Targeting, bias, and expected impact  MWI and GHA: Nexus between production diversity and dietary diversity MWI: Economic, risk, and labor effects of different legume and fertilizer practices  TZA: Determinants of technology “adoption”, willingness to pay for improved technologies Phase II targeting exercise 1. Summary of Phase I achievements/2  Staffing → local M&E coordinator/s→ data managers to be hired locally Timing and scale of ARBES → reduced scope of mid-line surveys and better coordination with AR researchers (through the local coordinator/s) Communication of research findings and main M&E activities → better coordination with comm. team  Need of monitoring SI indicators → template Need of data interoperability → BTS/BTTT Need of a beneficiary tracking tool → BTTT2. Phase I challenges and lessons learned 3. M&E for Phase II: monitoring/1 FtF indicators: Continuous updates/supervision to the PMMT for uploading onto the FtFMS Beneficiary and Technology Tracking Tool (BTTT): cataloguing of AR innovations and beneficiaries Offline excel-based tool with unique household ID! Tracking beneficiary households and technologies Audio tutorial here:  M&E data guide and tools: guideline for monitoring data needs (type, frequency, responsibilities, etc.) Inputs, outputs, outcomes, and contextual factors (e.g., prices) 3. M&E for Phase II: monitoring/2 AR data supervision (jointly with ILRI-managed CKAN): Confidential data Embargo period monitoring system (Refresher) trainings: PMMT, CKAN, BTTT, etc. Cataloguing of AR technologies and practices Data monitoring (through data managers) SI indicators: identification of relevant SIIF indicators and data collection tools (jointly with AR researchers) 3. M&E for Phase II: monitoring/3 SI indicators: to be guided by MSU/Columbia U’s sustainable intensification indicators framework (SIIF)  Provides guidelines on how data may be collected to construct SI indicators and monitor progress (productivity, economic, environment, social and human domains at farm-, hh-, landscape-, or admin-level) Use of SIIF is the responsibility of AR researchers (including indicator selection, data collection, etc.) SI data to be reported to Chief Scientists  Characterization: AR households, farming systems, typologies, livelihoods Ex-ante evaluation: Integrated crop and bio-economic modelling APSIM (with ICRISAT), DSSAT, DAHBSIM (with IAMM) Ex-post evaluation: agro-economic effects  Quasi-experimental evaluation design Correlates of AR technology adoption and agro-economic evaluation Cross-sectional and panel data analysis Comparative analysis: returns and risks with AR technologies (TZA and MWI)4. M&E for Phase II: evaluation/1   Targeted case studies: willingness to pay, risk rationing, access to credit and risk-contingent credit, adoption (TZA)  AR technology diffusion and scale-up: effects of technologies upon scaling up within the FTF ZoI? AR Midline Evaluation Surveys (ARMES):4. M&E for Phase II: evaluation/2Country Scope IFPRI baseline IFPRI midlineMalawi 450 AR hh, 26 AR villages + moreAug - Oct, 2013 Aug - Oct, 2017Tanzania 126 AR hh, 11 AR villages + moreFeb - Mar, 2014 Feb - Mar, 2018Zambia None TBD Decentralized monitoring Stronger presence in the field BTS/BTTT set-up and monitoring Continued supervision of PMMT, CKAN M&E data guide and tools (Refresher) training for PMMT, CKAN, BTTT Cataloguing of AR innovations ARMES Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation Targeted case studies and research activities5. ConclusionsAcknowledgementsAfrica Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generationafrica-rising.netThe presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.Thank You

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