Presentation by the Head of ICRISAT's Impact Assessment on the Impact Assessment at ICRISAT

1. Impact Assessment at ICRISAT
Kizito Mazvimavi
Presentation to the ICRISAT’s Global Planning Meeting, 11 February, 2013,
ICRISAT Patancheru, India

2. Introduction
• There is need to demonstrate a culture of Impact
at ICRISAT
• Impact Assessment Office (IAO) guided by
procedural guidelines and protocols on
implementation of ex-post IA studies
– Set One: with 9 studies (4 in Asia and 5 in SSA)
– Set Two: with 6 studies (4 in Asia and 2 in SSA)
• Completed 4 studies, 4 being implemented, and 7
to be implemented in 2013
• Coordinating: Measuring Returns to Research
Investment at ICRISAT
• Expectations of the planning week

3. Ex post Impact Assessment
• Can only be effectively conducted many years
after the completion of the research being
assessed (when enough time has elapsed for
adoption to take place)
– Need for data management during the course of
the project – to establish baseline
• Impact Cycle will describe the linkages
between Ex-Ante (priority setting) and Ex-Post
Impact Assessment

4. The Impact Cycle
Are we doing this?
Baseline study
Constraints, opportunities, and possible
technological solutions identified
Ex post Impact
Assessment
On-farm technology
evaluation
Adoption studies
Ex ante Impact Assessment
(Priority Setting)
Feedback
Feedback
Feedback
Technology
Dissemination
(Large-scale)
Technology
Dissemination
(Pilot-level)
Technology
Development

5. Objectives of Ex-Post Impact
Assessment
• To identify and measure quantitative and
qualitative impacts of ICRISAT research
projects
• To establish the contribution towards the six
institutional outcomes of ICRISAT’s research
strategy- i.e. self sufficiency, intensification,
diversification, resilience, nutrition and health,
capacity building and gender perspectives;
• To describe the plausible impact pathway; and
• To measure returns to project investments

6. Set 1 Studies under implementation
2011-12
Impact Assessment Studies CRP Focal Point Targeted
Study Period
IA2011 – 3: Impact of HPRC– Part B Dryland Cereals Ashok Kumar/SK
Gupta
Jan-Apr 2013
IA2011 –4: Impact of seed systems
development in sub-Saharan Africa
Markets, Institutes and
Policies/ Grain Legumes/
Dryland Cereals
Farid Waliyar Nov 2012-
May 2013
IA2011-5: Impact of groundnut research
in Malawi
Grain Legumes Moses Siambi/Patrick
Okori
Nov 2012 –
May 2013
IA2011-6: Impact of pigeonpea research
in Tanzania
Grain Legumes Said Silim Oct 2012 –
Feb 2013
IA2011-7: Impact of improved chickpea
varieties in India
Grain Legumes/Markets,
Institutes and Policies
Cynthia Bantilan Sep 2012 –
Jul 2013
IA2011-8: Impact of groundnut research
in Nigeria
Grain Legumes Bonny Ntare Feb 2012 –
Feb 2013
IA2011-9: Impact of ICRISAT research and
development for fertilizer micro-dosing in
ESA and WCA
Resilient Dryland Systems Justice Nyamangara/
Gandah Mahamadou
Oct 2012 –
May 2013

7. Set 2 Impact Assessment Studies
2013
Studies Region CRP Focal Point Budget
Bilateral CRP
IA2013 – 1: Impacts of chickpea
improved research in Central Dry
Zone of Myanmar
Asia Grain
Legumes
Pooran Gaur
IA2013 –2: Impacts of Lucheba
watershed work in China
Asia Resilient
Dryland
Systems
Suhas Wani
IA2013-3: Impact assessment of the
Agri- Business Incubation (ABI)
program at ICRISAT
Global Markets,
Institutions
and Policy
Kiran K. Sharma
IA2013-4: Impacts of sorghum
research and development in Mali
WCA Dryland
Cereals
Eva Rattunde
IA2013-5: Impact assessment of
sorghum variety development in
central Tanzania
ESA Dryland
Cereals
Mary Mgonja

8. Impact assessment of ICRISAT’s
work in watersheds 1999 to 2010
Quantifying Impacts

9. • Quantitative Impacts
– Total soil conserved 658,920 mt valued at US$171,319
– Additional income per crop increase up to US$400/ha
– Milk production increased from 2.5 to 4.0lt/day/animal
– Total income per ha per annum is US$1,000
– Economic viability showed benefit/cost ratio of 2:1 and
an internal rate of return of 27%.
– Returns to Investment in Watershed Management in
Andhra Pradesh – US$608 million over 10 years
Impact assessment of ICRISAT’s
work in watersheds 1999 to 2010

10. Part A – Institutional Level Impacts
Impact assessment of Hybrid Parents
Research Consortium (HPRC).

11. ICRISAT-bred parent Hybrids developed by
Private Sector and NARS
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Sorghum Pearl Millet Sorghum Pearl Millet
Private Sector NARS
%ofRespondents
ICRISAT Non-ICRISAT
ICRISAT bred parents dominate hybrid development

12. Highlights of HPRC Impacts
Part A
• Benefits to Private Sector and NARS
– Utilization of ICRISAT-bred hybrid parents
– Technical data of HPRC trials are available to partners to select the best
performing lines.
• Benefits to ICRISAT
– Feedback on the performance of the parental lines
– Financial support through membership fee, and
– Test locations for evaluation of the parental lines.
• Benefits to farmers
– Monetary incomes through cultivation of high yielding hybrids with
disease resistance,
– Access to dual purpose hybrids for both grain and good fodder, and
– Access to quality hybrid seeds in time for planting.
• Need for Improvement
– Membership fee – need to reduce fees to attract more members
– HPRC should develop the ‘diversified seed parents with multiple
disease/insect resistance’

13. Impact assessment of Pearl Millet
Hybrid HHB 67 Improved on production
on North-West India
Documenting Impacts along the
Impact Pathway

14. ICRISAT seed
parent (843A)
with marker
assisted downy
mildew resisted
CCSHAU restorer
parent (H77/833-2)
HHB 67 and
HHB 67
Improved
developed
Hybridrelease,testingand
notification
Research partner to
enhance quality and
product delivery
Multiple inbred lines
and downy mildew
resistant hybrid
produced
Shorter incubation
period – 9 years
Enhanced molecular
breeding
Access to financial
gains through finding
plant molecular
research
Farmers adopt downy
milder resistant and
high yield pearl millet
hybrids
Farmers can afford
high quality pearl
millet hybrids from
the market
Farmers improve crop
diversity as they
release part of their
land to kharif
Employment
generated for both
seed and grain
farmers
Improved food
security and
nutrition
More income for
farmers
More resilient
farming system
Improved
gender equity as
they access
employment in
seed production
Development of downy mildew resistant
pearl millet hybrids
Capacity building at
ICRISAT and NARS in
molecular breeding Reduced poverty
Research Inputs Research Outputs Research Outcome
Development
Outcome
Impacts
ICRISAT and NARS
Public and private seed
companies
Farmers and consumers
Impact Pathway for Pearl Millet Hybrids, HHB 67
and HHB 67 Improved

15. Presentation of Impact Results
• Impact assessment reports are shared with:
– researchers
– research management,
– donors,
– policy makers, and
– the media.
• Some targeted audiences have limited time to read a
highly technical report, and the IAO coordinates the
reproduction of the impact results into impact briefs (-
> ICRISAT Policy Briefs)
– that are easy to read and would encourage communication
of impact results across different practitioners.
• IAO Website

16. Estimating Returns to Research
Investments at ICRISAT
Need to demonstrate that resource
allocation to research represents
good investment in the past 40 years

17. 16+ Jewels of ICRISAT CRP Ex-Ante/Ex-Post Focal Point (s) Timeline
1. Community bases integrated watershed
management
RDS Ex-post Suhas Wani December 2012 and
June 2013
2. Fertilizer Microdosing RDS Ex-Post J Nyamangara/Gandah M March 2013
3. Village Level Studies MIP Ex-Post Cynthia Bantilan/Uttam Deb June 2013
4. Aflatoxin Testing Kit GL Ex-Post Farid Waliyar/ E Monyo/M
Siambi/H Sudini
June 2013
5. Early maturing and Fusarium fungal wilt
resistant chickpea
GL Ex-Post HD Upadhyaya February 2013
6. Fusarium wilt resistant pigeonpea GL Ex-Post Pooran Guar March 2013
7. Early maturing and Fusarium fungal wilt
resistant chickpea
GL Ex-Post KB Saxena/Suresh Pande March 2013
8. Pigeonpea in ESA GL Ex-Post Said Silim/Ganga Rao/Alastair Orr February 2013
9. Pigeonpea Genome GL Ex-Ante Rajeev June 2013
10. Guinea-Race Sorghum Hybrids DC Ex-Post Eva Weltzien March 2013
11. Extra-Early/Downy Mildew Resistant Pearl
Millet Hybrid
DC Ex-Post Rakesh K Srivastava February 2013
12. Sweet Sorghum DC Ex-Ante Belum Reddy March 2013
13. Genetic Resources in Food Security DC/GL Ex-Ante HD Upadhyaya June 2013
14. Hybrid Parents Research Consortium DC Ex-Post Ashok Kumar/SK Gupta March 2013
15. Open Access Repository DC/GL Ex-Ante M Madhan June 2013
16. Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa DC/GL/MIP Ex-Post Moses Siambi March 2013
Estimating Returns to Research Investment on
16+ ICRISAT Jewels