monitoring and evaluation (m&e) if one goal of your project is to have real impacts on farmers...
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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
If one goal of your project is to have real impacts on farmers through high quality technical research, then you will need to have some way of finding out if you are achieving these impacts!
The trouble is that many things affect farmers’ livelihoods, so you need some way to calculate the contribution of your research to their livelihoods.
Impacts (e.g. increased income)
Outcomes (e.g. large areas planted with this variety)
Outputs (e.g. selection of variety with high DM and sugar yields)
Activities (eg. working with farmers to evaluate new sugar cane)
Inputs (eg. planting material, money, labour, ideas, information)
Things we do
Impacts
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How are impacts generated on your project?
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
You will also need a monitoring tool as the situation in the field can quickly get beyond the capacity of researchers to monitor individually….
1995
16 16 farmers starting to evaluate forages
An example from Sepaku in East
Kalimantan
1996
16
10
10 farmers expanded
How big an area and which species?
1995
53 53 new farmers started to test forages
6 farmers did not expand or stopped
6
1995 1996 1997
10
53
16
10
6
40
8
4
13
2
2
Farmers starting to evaluate forages
Farmers expanding their forage area
Farmers not expanding their forage area
It is starting to become very complicated
1995 1996 1997 1998
10
53
40
13
16
10
8
2
6
4
2
31
10
6
3
0
1
2
9
3
4
5
2
3
0
Farmers starting to evaluate forages
Farmers expanding their forage area
Farmers not expanding their forage area
Impossible to handle without a monitoring tool
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
You will also need a monitoring process because data on impacts from farmer trials can be misleading…
934720Number of farmers
200019991998
20out
47out
93out
47new
93new
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
You will also need a monitoring process because data on impacts from farmer trials can be misleading…
202020Average Area (sq m / farmer)
934720Number of farmers
200019991998
Impact??
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
You will also need a monitoring process because data on impacts from farmer trials can be misleading…
120545020Average Area (sq m / farmer)
934720Number of farmers
200019991998
Who? Many farmers?
What impacts? How significant?
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Before you start a process of measuring the impacts of your research, you need to know:
•What impacts are happening?
•How many farmers are experiencing these impacts?
•Are the impacts significant in farmers’ lives?
Only then should you start to quantify the impacts.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Getting answers to these three questions may not be easy.
Stories of impacts are often misleading (exaggerated or based on stories from just one farmer)
Reports from the field are often very uninformative about ‘impacts’…only about outputsOne method we have used to capture impacts as they start to happen in the field is the use of digital photography as a basis for monitoring
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
One method we have found very useful to capture impacts as they start to happen in the field is the use of digital photography
A simple process for M&E
Laying a baseline for impact assessment
Baseline Survey
A simple process for M&E
Laying a baseline for impact assessment
Baseline Survey
From secondary information and results of participatory diagnosis and initial planning
with communities:
Village characterisation
A simple process for M&E
Monitoring evaluation and adoption of innovations being tested by farmers
Adoption Tree Surveys
Laying a baseline for impact assessment
Baseline Survey
From secondary information and results of participatory diagnosis and initial planning
with communities:
Village characterisation
A simple process for M&E
Common interest groups of farmers in villages working together on a
particular issue (e.g. women working on improving pig production)
Farmer Focus Groups
Monitoring evaluation and adoption of innovations being tested by farmers
Adoption Tree Surveys
Laying a baseline for impact assessment
Baseline Survey
From secondary information and results of participatory diagnosis and initial planning
with communities:
Village characterisation
A simple process for M&E
Common interest groups of farmers in villages working together on a
particular issue (e.g. women working on improving pig production)
Farmer Focus Groups
Monitoring evaluation and adoption of innovations being tested by farmers
Adoption Tree Surveys
Laying a baseline for impact assessment
Baseline Survey
Informally monitor problems,
innovations and activities
Informal Observations
From secondary information and results of participatory diagnosis and initial planning
with communities:
Village characterisation
A simple process for M&E
Impacts identified by Farmer Focus Groups are followed up with measurements
Quantifying Impact
Common interest groups of farmers in villages working together on a
particular issue (e.g. women working on improving pig production)
Farmer Focus Groups
Monitoring evaluation and adoption of innovations being tested by farmers
Adoption Tree Surveys
Laying a baseline for impact assessment
Baseline Survey
Informally monitor problems,
innovations and activities
Informal Observations
From secondary information and results of participatory diagnosis and initial planning
with communities:
Village characterisation
Source: Werner Stür, CIAT
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