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 research-for-development projects. These involve almost 200 organizations working in nine river basins around the world. An approach was developed to enhance the developmental impact...

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Main Authors: Douthwaite, Boru, Álvarez, S., Cook, Simon E., Davies, R., George, P., Howell, J, Mackay, R., Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43925
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author Douthwaite, Boru
Álvarez, S.
Cook, Simon E.
Davies, R.
George, P.
Howell, J
Mackay, R.
Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
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Davies, R.
Douthwaite, Boru
George, P.
Howell, J
Mackay, R.
Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
Álvarez, S.
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Davies, R.
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description The Challenge Program on Water and Food pursues food security and poverty alleviation through the efforts of some 50 research-for-development 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 fields of evaluation, organizational learning, and social network analysis.
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spelling CGSpace439252025-11-12T05:59:57Z Participatory impact pathways analysis : A practical application of program theory in research-for-development Douthwaite, Boru Álvarez, S. Cook, Simon E. Davies, R. George, P. Howell, J Mackay, R. Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer research projects water conservation impact assessment farmer participation development projects proyectos de investigación conservación de aguas evaluación del impacto participación de agricultores proyectos de desarrollo The Challenge Program on Water and Food pursues food security and poverty alleviation through the efforts of some 50 research-for-development 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 fields of evaluation, organizational learning, and social network analysis. 2007 2014-10-02T08:32:57Z 2014-10-02T08:32:57Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43925 en Open Access application/pdf
spellingShingle research projects
water conservation
impact assessment
farmer participation
development projects
proyectos de investigación
conservación de aguas
evaluación del impacto
participación de agricultores
proyectos de desarrollo
Douthwaite, Boru
Álvarez, S.
Cook, Simon E.
Davies, R.
George, P.
Howell, J
Mackay, R.
Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
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
title_full Participatory impact pathways analysis : A practical application of program theory in research-for-development
title_fullStr Participatory impact pathways analysis : A practical application of program theory in research-for-development
title_full_unstemmed Participatory impact pathways analysis : A practical application of program theory in research-for-development
title_short Participatory impact pathways analysis : A practical application of program theory in research-for-development
title_sort participatory impact pathways analysis a practical application of program theory in research for development
topic research projects
water conservation
impact assessment
farmer participation
development projects
proyectos de investigación
conservación de aguas
evaluación del impacto
participación de agricultores
proyectos de desarrollo
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