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This paper develops a novel approach called Outcome Trajectory Evaluation (OTE) in response to the long-causal-chain problem confronting the evaluation of research for development (R4D) projects. OTE strives to tackle four issues resulting from the common practice of evaluating R4D projects based on theory of change developed at the start. The appr...
Influencing policy is an important scaling mechanism. However, if a program is to plausibly claim that it has or can influence policy, it needs to explain how. This is not straightforward because of the complex nature of policy change. Scholars suggest the use of theory to help answer the ‘how’ question. In this article, we show how, in practice, a...
Agricultural technology and innovation are seldom, if ever, neutral. They may further
entrench or help challenge unequal gender norms and relations. However, while
studies demonstrate the ways in which agricultural technologies can benefit women,
women have often not been consulted during technological innovation. Consequently,
their voices, needs...
Crop diversity contributes to yield stability and nutrition security and is valued for its potential use in breeding improved varieties and adaptation to future climates. Women across the globe contribute to biodiversity conservation, and, in the Central Andes region, the cradle of potato diversity, rural women play a vital role in the management o...
Gender-responsive breeding is a new approach to making sure modern breeding takes advantage of opportunities to improve gender equality in agriculture. Conventional research on the acceptability of modern varieties has scarcely addressed gender differences during adoption studies. Gender-responsive breeding starts from a different premise that adop...
Collaborative programs that facilitate innovation to deliver value at scale require attention to effective program design, management, governance, and leadership. The CGIAR has experimented with different collaborative program design options over its 50-year history, most recently with the CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) implemented from 2012 to 202...
Breeding is a technical pillar of CGIAR research: the animal/fish breeds, and plant varieties developed are international public goods that contribute to agricultural development for low-income contexts worldwide. Gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical social dimensions underpinning agricultural development in these contexts. Progress...
In the coming decades, feeding the expanded global population nutritiously and sustainably will require substantial improvements to the global food system worldwide. The main challenge will be how to produce more food with the same or fewer resources and waste less. Food security has four dimenespecially the case in Africa wheresions: food availabi...
This paper examines the question of what makes choice empowering and critiques prevalent approaches to empowerment focused narrowly on agency as the ability of individuals to make their own free choices and act independently. The implications of a narrow focus on agency are illustrated with the examples of technology choice in agriculture, specific...
This review of the literature on varietal change in sub‐Saharan Africa looks in detail at adoption of new varieties of bananas in Uganda, cassava in Nigeria, potato in Kenya, sweetpotato in Uganda and yams in Côte d’Ivoire. The review explored three hypotheses about drivers of varietal change. There was a strong confirmation for the hypothesis that...
Sustainable Development Goals 5 calls for addressing gender equality and women empowerment by, among other things, eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. At CIP we interpret this to mean strengthening the use of gender approaches in research and ensuring that research products are responsive to the needs of men and women. This chapt...
This paper analyses the impact of a development programme designed at promoting the sustainable use of Andean Grain diversity. Results demonstrate that knowledge-sharing on agronomic practices, on benefits derived from consumption, and improving Andean Grain quality had a positive impact on income generation and farmer livelihoods. These results de...
The main objective of this study is to contribute to the mainstreaming of gender in the design, implementation and monitoring of interventions on agricultural innovation for food security. This work was developed from an analysis of the experience of the project “Strengthening pro-poor agricultural innovation for food security in the Andean region”...
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo principal contribuir a la incorporación del enfoque de género en el diseño, implementación y monitoreo de intervenciones de innovación tecnológica agrícola para la seguridad alimentaria. Este trabajo fue desarrollado a partir de un análisis de la experiencia del proyecto “Innovación para la Seguridad y Sobera...
From 2001 to 2010, an international effort was made through the implementation of two global projects aimed at enhancing the sustainable conservation and use of neglected and underutilized species (NUS). These projects represented the first UN-supported endeavors on NUS and tested out a novel collaborative framework involving all actors along the v...
This working paper reports on a study carried out in 2010-2011 to document, analyze and compare four cases of the implementation of two participatory methods (the SEP and CIAL methods) to improve the inclusion and relevance of agricultural research and extension for the poor. Use the methods was analyzed as a process of co-production in which farme...
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Todo proyecto o intervención para el desarrollo debe contar con un sistema de seguimiento y evaluación participativo que permita a los beneficiarios determinar el progreso de las actividades y tomar las medidas necesarias para resolver problemas, haciendo los ajustes necesarios en los objetivos y actividades. Este sistema debe permitir el adecuado...
La presente publicación está dirigida a técnicos de campo y responsables de la preparación de proyectos , elementos conceptuales y prácticos para poder hacer uso del método en la evaluación de Proyecto de Innovación Tecnológica. Esta publicación es parte de un conjunto de publicaciones del Proyecto INNOVA. Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Coop...
La presente publicación está dirigida a técnicos de campo y responsables de la preparación de proyectos , elementos conceptuales y prácticos para poder hacer uso del método en la evaluación de Proyecto de Innovación Tecnológica. Esta publicación es parte de un conjunto de publicaciones del Proyecto INNOVA. Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Coop...
La presente publicación está dirigida a técnicos de campo y responsables de la preparación de proyectos , elementos conceptuales y prácticos para poder hacer uso del método en la evaluación de Proyecto de Innovación Tecnológica. Esta publicación es parte de un conjunto de publicaciones del Proyecto INNOVA. Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Coop...
