Addis Impact assessment and monitoring & evaluation in the program
Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands Project Design Workshop 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Presentation: Impact assessment and M&E in this program (Stan Wood, IFPRI)
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
Sustainable intensification of farming systems: M&E goals, implementation strategy and data analysis platforms.
- M&E guiding principles:
Compliance with USAid's FtF, GoE and CRP; * Multi-scale, multi-site reporting: action site/sub-system and system reporting; country reports, regional reports, SSA reports. * Monitoring and projection: short term projections of key indicators, updated annually. Links with analytical tools. * Scaling indicators up and out (spatial & temporal) for various outcomes. * Open-access data and analysis platforms.
- Required indicators to make you think about the selection of components etc.
- Some 'required if applicable' indicators - looking at the integrated picture: measures of partial productivity are going to be complex and we might need some additional indicators in some areas e.g. individuals receiving short term training, value of incremental sales etc.
- We will have to take some tough decisions later on re: indicators and M&E generally;
- Monitoring and reporting levels: at action sites, sub-systems, larger systems (geographically disparate in Ethiopia and across the other project countries) - we need analytical tools for this!
- We will overlay all information collected.
- Impact pathway from a) sub-system resource potential (land, rainfall) to b) anthropization (market-access, population density) and c) site/household specific attributes( topography, endowment, household typologies). NEXT: look into spatial analysis to provide geographic definition and characterization.
- Various tools to combine to provide us a big picture.
- Some key M&E activities (not shown)
- M&E implementation to date:
Establish core FtF monitoring obligations (agree required core indicators and reporting timelines) Recruit M&E coordinator Establish the M&E implementation community; M&E open access, web-based platform; Annual M&E technical meeting;
- Pragmatic take: collect data and information on site/station - inventorise.
- Questions:
Split of M&E resources between early assessments and outcome / impact; Process to select components; cost of meeting donor's minimum indicator needs? Internal project management versus strategic M&E needs? Establishing shared roles in data and tool dev't and applicationo; Interest in being part of the wider M&E community (national partners)? Any likely candidates for M&E coordinator?