Presented by Ainsley Charles, IFPRI at the Africa RISING–CSISA Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11-13 November 2013

1. Africa RISING in East and Southern Africa: Monitoring
and Evaluation Case Study
Ainsley Charles, IFPRI
Africa RISING–CSISA Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Meeting,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11-13 November 2013

2. Items
 Motivation: accountability, effectiveness, scaling
up / down
 Current status
 Data landscape
 Specific challenges
 Looking forward

3. At start-up
 Existing M&E plan not operationalized
 No networks of information sharing for the
purposes of monitoring
 No data sharing protocols
 Best description: nascent

4. AR: Data landscape
 Administrative data
 Surveys: questionnaires, raw and enhanced datasets, metadata
 Household-level surveys
 Community-level surveys
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Publications: working papers, journal articles
Training events
Demonstration days
Progress reports
 Interim
 End-year
 Feed The Future indicator reporting
 Event presentations

5. Challenges
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Work-package structure
Lack of integration
Establishing trust
M&E a shared responsibility
Communication & responsiveness
Example: FtF reporting, Aug-Nov 2013
 Outreach: multiple, diverse
 Indicators: eight (hectares, households, partnerships, technologies); type
and gender disaggregations
 Research proposal element

6. Looking forward: ARMEIS
 Seamless collection / collation of data
 Archiving & storing data, and making it available
 IT / PMT
 Sharing research ideas and results cross-program (intra- and inter-)
 Analyzing the data
 Descriptive analysis: baseline and follow-up characterizations
 Causal analysis:
 Is AR effective, on average or within specific sub-populations?
 Which components? And what combinations?
 Disseminating results
 Main condition: Effective partnerships and researcher buy-in

7. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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