Participatory impact pathways analysis: a practical application of program theory in research-for-development

The Challenge Program on Water and Food pursues food security and poverty alleviation through the efforts of some 50 researchfor-evelopment projects. These involve almost 200 organizations working in nine river basins around the world. An approach was developed to enhance the developmental impact of...

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Main Authors: Douthwaite, Boru, Álvarez, S., Cook, Simon E., Davies, R., George, Pamela, Howell, J., Mackay, R., Rubiano, J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40827
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author Douthwaite, Boru
Álvarez, S.
Cook, Simon E.
Davies, R.
George, Pamela
Howell, J.
Mackay, R.
Rubiano, J.
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Davies, R.
Douthwaite, Boru
George, Pamela
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Rubiano, J.
Álvarez, S.
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description The Challenge Program on Water and Food pursues food security and poverty alleviation through the efforts of some 50 researchfor-evelopment projects. These involve almost 200 organizations working in nine river basins around the world. An approach was developed to enhance the developmental impact of the program through better impact assessment, to provide a framework for monitoring and evaluation, to permit stakeholders to derive strategic and programmatic lessons for future initiatives, and to provide information that can be used to inform public awareness efforts. The approach makes explicit a project's program theory by describing its impact pathways in terms of a logic model and network maps. A narrative combines the logic model and the network maps into a single explanatory account and adds to overall plausibility by explaining the steps in the logic model and the key risks and assumptions. Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis is based on concepts related to program theory drawn from the fi elds of evaluation, organizational learning, and social network analysis.
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spelling CGSpace408272021-10-07T20:48:13Z Participatory impact pathways analysis: a practical application of program theory in research-for-development Douthwaite, Boru Álvarez, S. Cook, Simon E. Davies, R. George, Pamela Howell, J. Mackay, R. Rubiano, J. food security poverty research projects development projects stakeholders institutions impact assessment models water productivity The Challenge Program on Water and Food pursues food security and poverty alleviation through the efforts of some 50 researchfor-evelopment projects. These involve almost 200 organizations working in nine river basins around the world. An approach was developed to enhance the developmental impact of the program through better impact assessment, to provide a framework for monitoring and evaluation, to permit stakeholders to derive strategic and programmatic lessons for future initiatives, and to provide information that can be used to inform public awareness efforts. The approach makes explicit a project's program theory by describing its impact pathways in terms of a logic model and network maps. A narrative combines the logic model and the network maps into a single explanatory account and adds to overall plausibility by explaining the steps in the logic model and the key risks and assumptions. Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis is based on concepts related to program theory drawn from the fi elds of evaluation, organizational learning, and social network analysis. 2007 2014-06-13T14:48:30Z 2014-06-13T14:48:30Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40827 en Limited Access Douthwaite, B.; Alvarez, S.; Cook, S.; Davies, R.; George, Pamela; Howell, J.; Mackay, R.; Rubiano, J. 2007. Participatory impact pathways analysis: a practical application of program theory in research-for-development. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 22(2):127-159.
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poverty
research projects
development projects
stakeholders
institutions
impact assessment
models
water productivity
Douthwaite, Boru
Álvarez, S.
Cook, Simon E.
Davies, R.
George, Pamela
Howell, J.
Mackay, R.
Rubiano, J.
Participatory impact pathways analysis: a practical application of program theory in research-for-development
title Participatory impact pathways analysis: a practical application of program theory in research-for-development
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topic food security
poverty
research projects
development projects
stakeholders
institutions
impact assessment
models
water productivity
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40827
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