Oecd ilibrary agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation. Guidelines for the design of agricultural investment projects 2005 web pdf version of 1995 revised edition editors 2005 note. Evaluating barriers to effective implementation of project. Evaluation is the periodic, retrospective assessment of an organisation, project or programme that might be conducted internally or by external independent evaluators. Read chapter 6 tools for monitoring and evaluation. Agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation 2019 this annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies spanning all 6 continents, including the 36 oecd countries, the 5 nonoecd eu member states, and 12 emerging economies.
Agricultural project planning in tanzania a handbook on. Provide quarterly synopsis including psip reports on the performance and progress of. Monitoring and evaluating the food security and nutrition. While monitoring has been described as the systematic and routine collection of information from projects and programmes scriven, 1991, evaluation is a systematic process used to determine the merit or worth of a programme or strategy in a specific context guskey, 2000. Research projects and programmes on agriculture and. Fao investment centre food and agriculture organization. Monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural. The world bank monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural research and extension projects.
Nalerp was conceived by the government of tanzania in 1987 at a time when the extension services had been fragmented between the ministry of agriculture and livestock development mald and. In agriculture, for example, there are many approaches to inproving. The toolkit for integrating gender into monitoring and evaluation has been developed to assist project task teams, borrowers, and partners to recognize and address gender concerns in designing rural development sector projects, to monitor progress in gender integration during implementation, and to evaluate its impact. The nature of the hvap, based on the development on various value chains, demands that its monitoring and evaluation system captures both the market dynamics per value chain and infuses social. Conservation based farming practices monitoring and.
Evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of development. Webbased system for monitoring and evaluation of agricultural projects article pdf available january 20 with 10,015 reads how we measure reads. Project monitoring and evaluation in agriculture english. Agricultural projects project sites ujuwanga and moshi 1. Monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural research and. Monitoring and evaluation in agricultural and rural development. Jul 01, 2011 rick davies, a monitoring and evaluation staple and manager of the monitoring and evaluation news website, has expressed similar sentiments, arguing that the lfa is not appropriately structured to capture the complexity of social change and change theory required to explain success or failure in international development planning. Factors influencing implementation of agricultural projects. A manual on monitoring and evaluation for alternative. Social and environmental sustainability of agriculture and. Monitoring and evaluation frameworks and the performance and. Improving the monitoring and evaluation of agricultural.
First, establishing a clear definition of impact evaluation is both necessary and valuable, as some debate exists in the field of development on what exactly constitutes an impact evaluation. Oct 20, 2012 monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural projects 1. Project monitoring and evaluation in agriculture english the. To facilitate this process, we are designing, building, and evaluating a system for precision agriculture which provides farmers with useful data about the soil, the water supply, and the general condition of their fields in a user friendly, easily accessible manner. Number of farmers, processors, others who adopted new technologies.
This knowledge and new technology can originate from research institutions, peer farmers or the broader community. Monitoring and evaluation in agricultural and rural. Main report 4 degree of price distortion or the nominal protection rate and the relative importance of the commodity to the total value of agricultural production. Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural development. Monitoring and evaluation frameworks and the performance. The primary evidence is qualitative interviews with staff at the gaap member projects, the gaap core team, senior staff at ifpri and ilri, funders of gender and agricultural development projects. A guide for practitioners berhanu gebremedhin, abraham getachew and rebeka amha improving productivity and market success ipms of ethiopian farmers project, international livestock research institute ilri, addis ababa, ethiopia ilri international. This report is the 31st in the series of oecd reports that monitor and evaluate agricultural policies across countries, and the 6th report to include all 35 oecd countries, the 6 nonoecd eu member states and a set of emerging economies. Resultsbased monitoring and evaluation for organizations working in agricultural development. This is a project performance evaluation report pper of the national agricultural and livestock extension rehabilitation project nalerp in tanzania. A monitoring and evaluation report of the conservation. Agricultural project planning in tanzania a handbook on cycles and sequences, participation, identification, planning and design, economic and financial analysis, and environmental assessment of agricultural projects. On this page you can read or download sample agriculture project report in pdf format. The influence of monitoring and evaluation on environmental.
Terms of reference for a baseline survey for an agricultural water management project rn3. Agriculture and rural development discussion paper 20. Although the key focus of the paper is on the monitoring and evaluation. A discussion of best practices in impact evaluation of. Agricultural projects can produce unintended consequences that may be masked by nongender sensitive outcome measures. Because of the need to monitor the implementation of agricultural projects and to evaluate their achievements, these activities are now a routine part of project appraisal. Monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural projects 1. Costs of ag projects vary enormously trying to define specific nutrition marginal costs minimizes the importance of the projects primary production objectives, and the potential for integrated winwin projects. Some current definitions of monitoring and evaluation are analysed, with the conclusion that monitoring should be taken as the process of setting targets for implementation and operation, and comparing actual progress with these, and evaluation, as the process of establishing whether the aims of the project are being achieved and what factors are contributing to the observed result. Data collection monitoring and evaluation and data analysis group presentation, report write up and communicating results figure 1. In 1997, new york city adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid f. Research projects and programmes on agriculture and nutrition. Impact evaluation in agriculture workshop lecturers samuel bazzi phd student university of california, san diego samuel bazzi is a 4th year ph.
Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policy indicators. The use of monitoring and evaluation in agriculture and. The agricultural water management council awmc is proposing the. Gizs independent evaluations take place either at the closure of an intervention endofproject evaluation or two to five years later expost evaluation. Directorategeneral for agriculture and rural development. Conservationbased farming practices monitoring and evaluation project project as a technical assistance program to aid growers in the associated reporting of monitoring data for the implementation of. The above project activity is highly diverse with elements of subsistence, combination crops and livestock, income generation alternatives from agriculture or non. A monitoring and evaluation report of the conservation agriculture project cap1 in zambia by jens b. A sourcebook second edition edited by p anandajayasekeram cj van rooyen f. Monitoring and evaluation public disclosure authorized of.
Improving the monitoring and evaluation of agricultural extension programs meas discussion paper series on good practices and best fit approaches in extension and advisory service provision dr. Project monitoring and evaluation in agriculture english abstract. Download sample agriculture project report document. Monitoring and evaluation frameworks and the performance and governance of international funds 4 1 introduction this paper presents deskbased research examining the key institutional and design features of a range of multilateral funds and institutions. They are coordinated by the section central evaluation of the monitoring and. Rick davies, a monitoring and evaluation staple and manager of the monitoring and evaluation news website, has expressed similar sentiments, arguing that the lfa is not appropriately structured to capture the complexity of social change and change theory required to explain success or failure in international development planning. Monitoring is the collection and analysis of information about a project or programme, undertaken while the project programme is ongoing. Price incentives faced by farmers are also affected indirectly by the nominal rates of. Background and objectives of evaluation survey in many subsaharan african countries, the achievement of selfsufficiency in food production is the highest priority of agricultural policy. Land evaluation and site assessment activities such as measuring land and productivity assist landowners and others prior to making land use conversions to nonagricultural uses. Monitoring and evaluation of agriculture and rural development projects dennis j. The land evaluation is based on data from the national cooperative soil survey often called the largest and most valuable natural resource database in the world.
Why agricultural projects fail poor strategy ineffective planning inappropriate organizational design poor technology inappropriate organizational design lack of customer commitment to project poor execution inadequate senior management oversight lack of welldefined and delegated authority and responsibility inefficient. Reports fees list by project report the fees list by project report displays a list of all the fees being used in all projects per. Pdf webbased system for monitoring and evaluation of. Factors influencing implementation of agricultural. Training on monitoring and evaluation for agriculture and. Toolkit for monitoring and evaluation of agricultural. Figure 7 specific evaluation projects to be undertaken. This paper argues a that project design is a significant factor in project failure and b that the over. Midterm evaluation of the usaid agricultural extension. Evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of development assistance to the republic of serbia per sector final report page iv sida swedish international development and cooperation agency sigma support for improvement in governance and management sldp sustainable local development program sme small and mediumsized enterprise sors statistical office of the republic of serbia. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the influence of monitoring and evaluation on the working process between environmental grant makers and their beneficiaries, with focus on financial giving.
Guided by the assumption that monitoring and evaluation may lead to an. This handbook is directed primarily to those working within a specific project, whose task it is to operate the monitoring andor evaluation systems, and secondly to those responsible for management of the project so that they may better assess what they can expect their monitoring and evaluation operations to provide. The primary audience is agriculture and rural project managers, specifically field personnel, communities, client governments, other stakeholders, and world bank task teams. Because of the need to monitor the implementation of agricultural projects and to evaluate. Agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation oecd ilibrary. Conduct training seminars in the new and updated monitoring and evaluation tools.
Agricultural extension systems have evolved such that extension workers are trained for and engaged in the communication of agricultural research findings and. Monitoring and evaluation tools and techniques plays a key role in ensuring agriculture and rural development ard projects are designed, implemented as planned to aid in ending hunger and poverty. However, with continued reliance on rainwater for cultivation, it is not easy to secure stable. Agriculture and rural development discussion paper 20 riikka rajalahti johannes woelcke eija pehu monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural research and extension projects. Monitoring and evaluation for ad projects tools and methods for field test. Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural development projects. A discussion of best practices in impact evaluation of agricultural projects by mackenzie hickman, oleg firsin and alexandre monnard background. Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural subsidy programs.
Dear esteemed alumni of imtc, we will like to use this opportunity to check on your wellbeing. Pdf on apr 1, 2004, ponniah anandajayasekeram and others published agricultural project planning and analysis. An example is increasing workload for women who manage new agricultural assets. A handbook on monitoring and evaluation of agriculture and. Large sections of part ii have been updated, in particular chapter 4. Brazil, the peoples republic of china, colombia, costa rica, kazakhstan, the philippines, the russian federation, south africa, ukraine and viet nam. Current research is of a range of types, including evaluations of agricultural development projects, research focused on specific agricultural interventions, and the creation and analysis of large datasets on agricultural and nutritional change. Pdf monitoring and evaluating agricultural science and. Wireless sensorbased agricultural monitoring system. The design and process of the training workshop on monitoring and evaluation for alternative development ad projects. A manual on monitoring and evaluation for alternative development. His research focuses on international migration, economic growth, and other topics in.
Monitoring and evaluating agricultural science and technology projects. If you dont see any interesting for you, use our search form on. Provide quarterly synopsis including psip reports on the performance and progress of agricultural projects. Conduct schedule and unscheduled checks on projects and activities both locally and foreign funded countrywide. Most research projects are directed at improving the production of nutritious foods. Monitoring and evaluation for world bank agricultural projects. Some current definitions of monitoring and evaluation are analysed, with the conclusion that monitoring should be taken as the process of setting targets for.
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