Volume 41. Issue 6: People-centred M&E: Aligning Incentives So Agriculture Does More to Reduce Hunger
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Overview: Getting a More Balanced View of What is Working in Agriculture to Reduce Hunger
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article suggests that to understand better what is working in agriculture in order to reduce hunger, a strengthening and transformation of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in agricultural research and development ... -
The Sorry State of M&E in Agriculture: Can People-centred Approaches Help?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article argues that if the multiple purposes of M&E were recognised and pursued it would help align the incentives of funders, implementers, M&E service providers, and intended beneficiaries to increase the ... -
Commentary on ‘The Sorry State of M&E in Agriculture: Can People?centred Approaches Help?’
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)In their article, Haddad, Lindstrom and Pinto highlight some of the most critical issues facing monitoring and evaluation today, not only in agriculture but across many fields of endeavour. Their rationale and call for ... -
Evaluation: Why, for Whom and How?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)The overall objective of this article is to discuss current theoretical debates in the evaluation literature to assess their relevance for agriculture. After noting the ‘bad press’ of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) ... -
Creating the Missing Feedback Loop
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article describes how agricultural development agencies can implement feedback systems to hear systematically from the intended beneficiaries of their work. Feedback systems relate to debates on reforming accountability, ... -
Three Approaches to Monitoring: Feedback Systems, Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Logical Frameworks
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article compares key attributes, strengths and weaknesses of three different approaches to monitoring development interventions: the logical framework approach, participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) and ... -
A Revolution Whose Time Has Come? The Win?Win of Quantitative Participatory Approaches and Methods
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article explores the potential presented by quantitative participatory methods (QPMs) and approaches for agricultural monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment. Pioneering examples indicate that QPMs can be ... -
Private Sector Metrics Contributions to Social Change: Customer Satisfaction Meets Agriculture Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)The ambitious current wave of agriculture development projects – public, private and public?private – expressly profess to break with 60 years of underperformance in support for smallholder agriculture in Africa and South ... -
Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Science and Technology Projects: Theories, Practices and Problems
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches ... -
Commentary on ‘Private Sector Metrics Contributions to Social Change: Customer Satisfaction Meets Agriculture Development’
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)David Bonbright and Jamey Powers' IDS Bulletin article entitled ‘Private Sector Metrics Contributions to Social Change: Customer Satisfaction meets Agriculture Development’ proposes a refreshingly simple and yet profound ... -
Context?specific and Project?induced Risk: Designing Projects for Promoting Resilient Livelihoods
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)Agriculture?based projects can rarely operate without having a significant impact on their participants' exposure to risk. If participant risk is not adequately considered and addressed in a project's design, there can be ... -
Incorporating Seasonality into Agricultural Project Design and Learning
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)Seasonality can be extremely damaging to the lives and livelihoods of rural people, but this is rarely recognised and factored into the design and implementation of agricultural projects. During the annual hungry season, ... -
Women's Empowerment, Development Interventions and the Management of Information Flows
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article takes gender inequalities in the distribution of power as its point of departure. Given the widespread evidence of the extent to which women, particularly poor women, have been marginalised in processes by ... -
A Learning Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)This article draws on literature from both monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and organisational learning to explore synergies between these two fields in support of organisational performance. Two insights from the ... -
Commentary on Latin American Experiences on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)On the basis of Latin American experiences in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), this note addresses learning issues with particular emphasis on the role of trust, the relations between M&E, and barriers to the use ... -
Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the Impacts of Policy?oriented Research in Agriculture
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)In the current context of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, development resources are likely to be getting scarcer. Resources for development research are too. The set of circumstances generating the resource ... -
Commentary on ‘Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the Impacts of Policy?oriented Research in Agriculture’
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2010)While entitlement protection is intrinsically a short?term task, building flexible and effective response mechanisms is a long?term one. So a more comprehensive research agenda is needed – especially in the context of ...