Africa rising objectives, activities, expected results

Africa RISING objectives, activities, expected results

• Africa RISING objectives, activities, expected results

• Monitoring

• Evaluation (and Learning)

• Data collection

• Data use, presentation, modeling

• Roles and responsibilities

Contribute to M&E vision, strategy

• Contribute to M&E vision, strategy

• M&E Plan integrator

• FTF indicators and reporting

Objective

• Objective

• Transform agricultural systems through sustainable intensification
• Sustainable intensification: producing more (agricultural) output from same area of land, while:
• reducing negative environmental impacts
• increasing contributions to natural capital and flow of environmental services

Implementation activities

• Implementation activities

• Diagnosis & design of technology combinations
• On-farm & on-station trials of new combinations of existing technologies
• Institutional and/or value chain improvements

• Systems and Sites

• Cereal-based farming systems - Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa
• Crop-livestock systems - Ethiopian highlands
• Maize-legume-livestock systems - Eastern & Southern Africa

Expected key, direct results of implementation

• Expected key, direct results of implementation

• Sustainable higher productivity
• Reduced negative environmental impacts
• Increased contributions to natural capital & flow of environmental services
• Value chain conduct and performance improved? / Improved market efficiency? / Improved extension effectiveness?

• Many other results possible: labor use, WUE, poverty, hunger, etc.

Describes the “what” of implementation

• Describes the “what” of implementation

• Useful for:

• Management - to see if project is on track
• Reporting – to inform client & other stakeholders of progress

• Indicators

• USAID FTF
• Others useful to AR for monitoring or evaluation or both

Helps understand “how” & “why” of implementation

• Helps understand “how” & “why” of implementation

• Determines & attributes impact

• Qualitative and/or quantitative

• Dimensions

• Sites (different levels)
• Development domains
• Household types
• Technologies & combinations
• Implementation processes

Evaluation questions, including at which sites

• Evaluation questions, including at which sites

• Evaluation method for each, including demonstration of feasibility

• For quantitative evaluations includes power calculations

• Data required for each

• Plan for data collection for each

• Plan for analysis for each

Support construction of development domains

• Support construction of development domains

• Support site selection

• Support diagnosis/technology design

• Baseline for setting monitoring targets

• Baseline for evaluation (if needed)

• Support for evaluation design (e.g., reduced sample size with better information on variances)

• Monitoring

• Evaluation

• Support modeling on scaling up & out

Rich datasets

• Rich datasets

• GIS & other analytical frameworks

• Projections for scaling up & out

IFPRI

• IFPRI

• IITA, ILRI

• USAID

• Partners