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ACIAR People, Pulses, Poultry, Pigs, Prawns and Poverty – Evaluating the impact of agricultural research
ACIAR
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ACIAR
Outline Overview of ACIAR as part of the
Australian Aid Program Background to ACIAR’s impact
assessment program Methods and Approaches Challenges and efforts to improve
evaluation
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ACIAR
ACIAR – Who, why and what
• Statutory authority within the Australian Government’s Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio
• Part of Australia’s Aid Program • A research funder and manager • Develop projects with Australian and
partner country R&D institutions
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ACIAR
Purposes for ACIAR Evaluation • Governance • Effectiveness • Efficiency • Impact • Sustainability • Appropriateness • Priority setting and project development
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ACIAR
Purposes for ACIAR Ex-post Impact Assessment • Governance • Effectiveness • Efficiency • Impact • Sustainability • Appropriateness • Priority setting and project
development
Ex-post impact
assessment
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ACIAR
Impact Assessment Program
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ACIAR
Next users
End users
Impact
IMPACTS
ACTIVITIESOUTPUTS
OUTCOMES
Responsibility of project Utilisation of project results
External influences
WITHIN THE RESEARCH PROJECT
Strategy logic in research projects – Impact Pathways
Hanks et al,unpublished
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ACIAR ACIAR
Independent impact assessments of 156 ACIAR bilateral projects have estimated:
total benefits, A$12.3 billion
attributable to ACIAR
total expenditure on all ACIAR projects since 1982, A$2.5 billion (in 2012 dollar values)
benefit:cost ratio (BCR), 5:1
Impacts of ACIAR Research
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ACIAR
Pig production in Vietnam • Productivity
– Reproductive performance – Increased weight – Higher lean-meat percentage – Reduced feed cost
• Benefits (Present value) – $A2,093m – BCR 118:1
• Capacity building of animal scientists and feed mill staff
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ACIAR
Evaluation of Impact on Poverty
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ACIAR
Refining Evaluation Methods
• Incorporating more Mixed-methods
within the evaluation task – qualitative and quantitative data
collection and analysis – reinforcing each other to evaluate
R&D projects within complex environments
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ACIAR
Evaluation of Impact on Livelihoods
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ACIAR
Evaluation of Impact on Capacity Building
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ACIAR
Lessons learned from Impact Assessments
• Importance of adoption • Effect of local industry and policy
conditions • A project champion • Capacity building • Challenges in implementing policy
outcomes