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OUTPUT IV: MONITORING SYSTEMS
4.1 Impact Monitoring System for CIAT Projects: D. Pachico
4.2 Strengthening NARS: S. Wood
4.1 CIAT Project Monitoring System Developed: D. Pachico
This output is still in the early stages of development. During 1997 two presentations
were made on impact monitoring issues to assist CIAT Project managers in dealing with
impact assessment. A visit was made to IDRC to benchmark practices with the IDRC
Evaluation Group. This is intended to provide elements for incorporation in a future CIAT
Project impact monitoring system.
4.2 Strengthening NARS: S. Wood
- Development of user-friendly R&D evaluation tools. During 1997 the IFPRI-CIAT team
completed the first release of a windows based software package designed for dynamic
research evalaution for management (DREAM). The software is scheduled for release in
November 1997 and is available free of charge with a user manual.
- Dissemination of improved research evaluation methods through sub-regional workshops and
seminars convened with national agricultural research agencies and universities throughout
the region.
Thanks to BP-1’s direct participation in both the CIAT-IFPRI joint ecoregional
activities and IICA-IFPRI LAC Research Evaluation and Priority Setting Strengthening
Project (IBP2) there have been many opportunities to expose, review, and refine the new
methods described in the previous sections. Indeed, within the IBP2 project, the
approaches outlined above were adopted as the methodological vehicle on which to base the
prototype sub-regional research evaluation and capacity building exercises. These were
implemented by technical groups comprising research planners and analysts from INIAs, as
well as some University representatives in Mesoamerica, the Andean region, and the
Southern Cone. The Mesoamerica and Andean group's activities, in particular, had a strong
agroecological component. In 1997 the methods briefly described here have been presented,
reviewed and applied by members of the IFPRI-CIAT team in collaboration with IICA and INIA
representatives in a number of 2-3 day technical workshops, as well as 1 day seminars to
senior research policy makers and planners. The Workshops and technical meetings took
place in; Bogota (2), Cali (2), Mexico City, Caracas, Quito, Montevideo (2), Brasilia, and
Washington DC, as well as related evaluation and priority setting Workshops in Port of
Spain, Trinidad. These meetings included participants from practically all countries in
LAC, and focused on conceptual issues, and methods as well as practical exercise and case
studies using DREAM.
The methods developed have also been reviewed and adopted by CIAT itself in several of
it's on-going evaluation studies, e.g., on cassava germplasm targeted to different
agroecological zones and markets. And, through CIAT's involvement in CONDESAN the methods
are also being evaluated by that ecoregional initiative.
Staff Involved: Stanley Wood (IFPRI/CIAT ), Wilfred Baitx (CIAT)
Collaborators: IFPRI, BID, IICA, CARDI, PROCISUR, PROCIANDINO, INIAS
of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rice, Nicaragua, Panama, Belize,
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Surinam, Guyana, Brazil, Parguay, Chile, Argentina,
Uruguay, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Antigua, Barbados, St.
Lucia.
Funding: BID, IICA, PROCISUR, CARDI, CIAT
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