Millstone, Erik, van Zwanenberg, Patrick and Marshall, Fiona (2010) Monitoring and evaluating agricultural science & technology projects: theories, practices and problems. IDS Bulletin, 41 (6). pp. 75-87. ISSN 0265-5012
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Abstract
Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scientific and technological innovation projects and examines how approaches to M&E can be modified or enhanced to optimise positive impacts on those intended recipients. This article concludes that innovations are most successful when they are accomplished within ‘innovation systems’; that advantage should be taken of opportunities to involve intended recipients of the innovation at early up-stream and mid-stream stages of projects to assess the accuracy and adequacy of theories of change; that the types of tools and methods used in carrying out M&E influence the types of data obtained; and that the cultures of research and development institutions may inhibit reciprocal communications but the development of intermediaries between institutions and farmers could make a useful difference.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | University of Sussex Business School > SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Users 7386 not found. |
Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2014 08:51 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2019 01:47 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48292 |
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