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[Project Description] [Project Workbreakdown Structure] [Logframe] [1998 Highlights]
[Output I: Databases and Methodologies] [Output II: Ex-ante Impact Assessment]
[Output III: Ex-post Impact Assessment] [Output IV: Institutional Capacity] [Donors] [Partners] [Staff List] [Publications and Presentations List] [References Cited in Report]

Project Description

Project BP-1: Impact Assessment

Objective: To generate information that helps guide the allocation of CIAT resources, assists NARS in priority setting, improves the quality and efficiency of the Center's outputs, and indicates the returns to stakeholders' investments.

Outputs: Improved information and analysis for estimating the magnitude and distribution of the benefits of agricultural and natural resource management research. Appraisals of the acceptability, adoption, and impact of selected CIAT outputs. Improved capacity at CIAT and NARS for estimating, monitoring, and measuring the impacts of research.

Gains: Improved allocation of resources can increase the rate of return on investment in agricultural research. Project target is 2%.

Milestones:

1998 Review of adoption and impact of CIAT outputs prepared. Benefits of two CIAT projects estimated. Two field studies on technology adoption and acceptability conducted.

1999 Two field studies on technology adoption and acceptability conducted. Patterns of poverty in LAC analyzed. Expected benefits of social capital outputs of two CIAT projects estimated.

2000 Project monitoring system linked to estimates of impact assessment. Two field studies on technology adoption and acceptability conducted.

2001 Guidelines on methods of impact assessment for resource management research developed. Expected benefits of two CIAT projects estimated. Two field studies on technology adoption and acceptability conducted.

Users: The information and models developed in this project will help research planners in NARS and the CGIAR with decisions on resource allocation. Stakeholders will be able to measure expected returns to investment in agricultural and resource management research.

Collaborators: Field studies on technology adoption and acceptability: NARS in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Methodology development and strengthening of NARS: IFPRI, IICA, and the University Javeriana Use of outputs: IDB, NARS in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

CGIAR system linkages: Improving Policies (100%). Participates in the CGIAR Impact Assessment and Evaluation Group and contributes to the Tropical America Ecoregional Program.

CIAT project linkages: Works with all CIAT projects to appraise benefits and monitor impact.


 

Project Workbreakdown Structure

Project BP-1: Assessment of Past and Expected Impact of Agricultural Research

Project objective

To generate information that helps guide the allocation of CIAT resources, assists NARS in

Priority setting, improves the quality and efficiency of the Center's outputs, and

Indicates the returns to stakeholders' investments

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Databases and methods developed to improve the ex ante assessment of the benefits of agricultural and natural resource

Management research

The expected contribution of CIAT's outputs to economic growth, poverty alleviation,

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The acceptability, adoption, and impact of CIAT outputs analyzed

Systems for monitoring and evaluation as integral

components of agricultural research developed

 

 

 

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  • Compile and organize basic data sets, including research activities and costs, biophysical conditions, production systems, commodity markets (in collaboration with IFPRI).
  • Revise existing consumer surplus models for assessing the economic benefits of research (in collaboration with IFPRI).
  • Identify and adapt novel techniques for extending the economic analysis to include nonmarket outputs (in collaboration with the University of Wageningen).
  • Analyze current development trends to assess potential consequences of CIAT's research portfolio (linked to all other CIAT projects).
  • Formulate research investment scenarios to estimate magnitudes and patterns of expected benefits from CIAT outputs (linked to all other CIAT projects).
  • Revise literature on historic adoption and impact of CIAT outputs.
  • Conduct field studies on acceptability and adoption of CIAT outputs (in collaboration with INIAP, CORPOICA, EMBRAPA-CNPMF, and Nestlè Corp.)
  • Assist CIAT project leaders in the use and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system (linked to all other CIAT projects).
  • Use information from project monitoring and evaluation systems to improve projections of expected impact.
  • Contribute to strengthening regional and national systems for research prioritization (in collaboration with IFPRI, IICA, and IDB Regional Fund for Research).

 

 

LOGFRAME PROJECT BP1

 

NARRATIVE SUMMARY

 

MEASURABLE INDICTORS

MEANS OF VERIFICATION

IMPORTANT ASSUMPTIONS

Goal: To contribute to the alleviation of hunger and poverty in tropical developing countries by applying science to the generation of technology leading to lasting increases in agricultural output while preserving the natural resource base.
  • CIAT outputs make contribution to increase food availability, poverty alleviation, and improved management of natural resources.
  • Reports of external reviews, donors, and national institutions.
  • Indicators of food production and natural resources.
  • Impact assessment studies.
  • Sustained funding to CIAT
  • No external shocks fundamentally worsen food availability, poverty or natural resources

Purpose: To generate information that helps guide the allocation of CIAT resources, assists NARS in prioriting setting, and documents the returns to stakeholder investments.
  • Information used by CIAT BOT, MT, Project Managers.
  • NARs assisted in priority setting.
  • Returns to investment documented.
  • Minutes of BOT, MT, projects.
  • Published CIAT plans.
  • Reports of NARS.
  • Published impact studies.
  • Decision maker openness to utilize information.
  • Adequate funding for Project BP1.
Output 1: Capacity to assess expected impact of research developed.
  • Databases used in planning and Project development.
  • New methods used in planning and project developments.
  • CIAT mid-term and strategic plans.
  • CIAT Project documents.
  • Publications
  • Decision makers' openness to use data and information.
Product 1.1: Data bases for research planning developed.
  • Data bases available.
  • Project web site.
  • CIAT internal network.
  • Publications.
  • Adequate support of CIAT information systems.
  • Access to data sets.
Product 1.2: New methods for assessing research impact developed.
  • Improved consumer surplus model available.
  • New methods for assessing impact of NRM research developed.
  • New methods for assessing impact of research producing institutional innovation or information
  • Publications

 

 

 

 

  
Output 2: Expected impact of potential CIAT research outputs appraised.
  • Ex-ante impact of CIAT projects estimated.
  • Ex-ante impact of new research alternatives estimated.
  • Publications
  • Collaboration of other CIAT projects.
Product 2.1: Conditions affecting potential future returns to research outputs identified.
  • Prevailing trends affecting LAC agriculture monitored.
  • Future scenarios developed.
  • Publications
  
Product 2.2: Impacts of research outputs simulated.
  • Projections of future impact available.
    
Output 3: Past impact of CIAT research understood.
  • Estimates of acceptability, adoption, or impact of selected CIAT outputs estimated.
  • Publications
  • CIAT outputs utilized by partners.
Product 3.1: Field studies of selected cases of impact undertaken.
  • Field studies conducted.
  • Publications
  
Product 3.2: General patterns of impact understood
  • Synthetic reviews of impact executed.
  • Publications
  
Output 4: Institutional capacity for estimating, monitoring, and evaluating research impacts strengthened.
  • CIAT has coherent of estimating, monitoring and evaluating impact.
  • CIAT plans and documents.
  • External reviews.
  • Commitment of entire CIAT community
Product 4.1: CIAT projects' planning, monitoring and evaluation system assisted.
  • Adequate monitoring procedures in CIAT projects.
  • Specific support activities documented.
  • Project plans and reports.
  • Annual reports; external reviews.
  • CIAT projects define their outputs.
Product 4.2: NARS' planning monitoring, and evaluation systems assisted.
  • NARS planning procedures and reports.
  • Specific support activity documented.
  • NARS documents and reports.
  • Annual reports.
 NARS assign priority to this activity.

 

1998 Highlights

Output 1. Product 1.1

  • Databases made available on Internet, linked to other relevant sites, and registered in major search engines. Databases include agricultural production, trade, prices, land use, population, exchange rates and agricultural inputs. (Linked to all CIAT projects and Information and Documentation Unit).

    • Sections 1.1 and 1.2 in this report.

Output 1. Product 1.2

  • Consumer surplus model of ex-ante benefits improved to permit multi-market analysis, dis-adoption of technologies, probability of research success, and price trends. (Linked to projects IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4, IP5, SB2).

    • Section 1.3 in this report.

  • Framework based on economics of information developed to analyze impact of CIAT projects with non-technological outputs (Linked to projects PE3, PE4, SN1, SN3).

    • Section 1.4 in this report.

Output 2. Product 2.1

  • More rapid growth in productivity found for CIAT crops - beans, cassava, rice, beef and milk - then for most other commodities in Colombia, suggestive of impact of CIAT technology. (Linked to projects IP1, IP3, IP4, IP5).

    • Section 2.1.A. in this report.

  • Competitiveness appears to be highest in Latin America for export plantation crops, above median for milk, rice and beans, and below median for beef and cassava. (Linked to projects IP5, PE4, PE5).

    • Section 2.1.B. in this report.

  • Relation between cattle and deforestation in Latin America is strongly influenced by interest rates, foreign exchange regime, infrastructure development, and land tenure. (Linked to projects IP5, PE4, PE5).

    • Section 2.1.C in this report.

Output 2. Product 2.2

  • Post doctoral fellow recruited to work on this output full time in 1999 (Linked to all CIAT projects).

Output 3. Product 3.1

  • Releases of CIAT germplasm by NARS 1967-1998 found to continue at high rate, to be changing in composition over time, and to be complementary to NARS own growing breeding output. (Linked to IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4, IP5, SB2). Section 3.1.C. in this report.
  • Awareness of impact of CIAT rice and beans research promoted through articles carried by Financial Times, Reuters, EFE, IDB in house magazine. (Linked to Communications Unit and IP1 and IP4).

    • Section 3.1.B. in this report.

Output 3. Product 3.2

  • Adoption of improved pastures in Caqueta Colombia found to have doubled from 1986 to 1997, from 26% to 58% of pasture area, and to be associated with a decrease in deforestation. (Linked to projects IP5, PE5).

    • Section 3.2.B. in this report.

  • Dry cassava agroindustry in Ceara Brazil produced benefits that reached small farmers and women, but additional enterprise development services shown to be critical success factor. (Linked to SN1).

    • Section 3.2.C. in this report.

  • Farmer participatory research methods in Colombia found to increase quantity and diversity of farmer research as well as lead to identification of rapidly adopted improved technology. (Linked to IP1, SN3).

    • Section 3.2.D. in this report.

  • Components of IPM adopted for control of white fly in Colombia, but impact constrained by non-adoption of complete IPM package. (Linked to IP1, PE1).

    • Section 3.2.A. in this report.

  • Benefits of adoption of improved cassava varieties in Colombia in 1996 alone estimated to exceeded $US2,300,000. (Linked to IP3).

    • Section 3.2.F. in this report

Output 4. Product 4.1

  • CIAT Project capacity for internal impact assessment enhanced through organization of annual review workshop. (Linked to all CIAT projects).
  • Basic principles of guidelines for assessing impact of NRM outlined. (Linked to projects PE2, PE3, PE4, PE5, SN1, SN3).

    • Section 4.1.A. in this report.

Output 4. Product 4.2

  • Students trained from three LAC Universities.

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