The role of evaluation in strengthening agricultural R&D in sub-saharan Africa: information, instruments, and actors

cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Agriculture Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.number10en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.placeAccra, Ghanaen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorOruko, Leonarden
dc.contributor.authorElliott, Howarden
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-01T13:54:56Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-01T13:54:56Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152534
dc.titleThe role of evaluation in strengthening agricultural R&D in sub-saharan Africa: information, instruments, and actorsen
dcterms.abstractThis paper links the evolution of research monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools to major questions being asked and to demands for research reform at the global, regional, subregional, and national levels. First, in order to inform decisionmaking, research must continuously push the frontiers, conceptually and computationally, while providing practical considerations to policymakers and their advisers. Second, the demand for new concepts and tools is continuously evolving as problems are redefined: each successful study enhances the demand for better data and better tools. Finally, monitoring paces the reform process in three critical ways: (1) it corrects pathways to new objectives as needed; (2) it measures the efficiency and effectiveness of implementation; and (3) it identifies organizational, institutional, and systemic constraints to achievement of objectives. This paper interprets several key reforms at national and international levels; relates them to the M&E tools used; and draws some conclusions for the future development of data, information, and analytical approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOruko, Leonard; Elliott, Howard. 2011. The role of evaluation in strengthening agricultural R&D in sub-saharan Africa: information, instruments, and actors. Conference Working paper 10. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152534en
dcterms.extent30 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfConference Working paperen
dcterms.issued2011
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.publisherForum for Agricultural Research in Africaen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/127042en
dcterms.subjectagricultural researchen
dcterms.subjectevaluationen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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