Resultados de búsqueda - "impact evaluation"

Leveraging spatial econometrics for enhanced impact assessment: Insights from agricultural innovation por Song, Chun, Urbani, Ilaria

“…Part of the MELIAF series, this note underscores spatial econometrics’ role in refining impact evaluations.…”
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Designing social protection to promote women’s resilience to risk por Roy, Shalini, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Hoddinott, John F., Ahmed, Akhter, Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Hidrobo, Melissa, Rakshit, Deboleena, Berhane, Guush, Gilligan, Daniel O., Grimachew, Fikirte, Kumar, Neha, Ambler, Kate, de Brauw, Alan, Soneja, Payal

“…Evidence-based guidance on effective social protection design for implementers to promote women’s resilience to risk. Impact evaluations testing different social protection designs for implementers to promote women’s resilience to risk, and resulting guidance on which designs are effective in different contexts in the short and longer term. …”
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Do empowerment impacts endure? The medium-term impacts of the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Project in Bangladesh por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Rakshit, Deboleena

“…Yet, with few exceptions (Alderman et al. 2025) there is little overlap between these two areas of work, in large part because many impact evaluations fail to follow up after the initial evaluation is completed. …”
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Strengthening CPWF project evaluations: Assessing research-for-development impact por Mayne, J.

“…The Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) funds research-for-development projects for 3-5 year periods with the aim of “increasing the productivity of water for food and livelihoods, in a manner that is environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable”. Impact evaluations of CPWF’s projects serve several purposes including lessons to improve implementation, lessons to inform uptake, and credible information to CPWF donors and other stakeholders. …”
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Measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture: Innovations and evidence por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Cole, Steven M., Elias, Marlène, Faas, Simone, Galiè, Alessandra, Malapit, Hazel J., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Twyman, Jennifer

“…Using a gender and food systems framework and a standardized measure of women's empowerment, the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), we review the evidence on “what works” to empower women based on impact evaluations of a portfolio of 11 agricultural development projects with empowerment objectives and a scoping review of livestock interventions. …”
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Transforming food systems. Impacts and insights from scaling innovations in Zimbabwe por Andriatsitohaina, Rachel Muthoni, Tsekenedza, Shylet, Mutari, Bruce, Mwenye, Dorah, Hodzi, Jonathan, Kunaka, Gamu, Chiwawa, Andrew, Chisorochengwe, Nyarai, Muhera, Shumirai, Mashiri, Patience, Mashunye, Justice, Gutsa, Freeman, Makotore, Walter, Mavankeni, Busiso, Kutwayo, Dumisani, Chirwa, Rowland, Rubyogo, Jean-Claude

“…The narratives were compared with data and information from project implementation monitoring reports, process evaluations, impact evaluations, and relevant secondary sources. Emerging solutions and outcomes for food system transformation are presented. …”
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Evolving protected-area impacts in Panama: Impact shifts show that plans require anticipation por Haruna, Akiko, Pfaff, Alexander, van den Ende, Sander, Joppa, Lucas

“…Yet by necessity impact evaluations use past data. Here we argue that forward-looking plans should blend such evaluations with anticipation of shifts in threats. …”
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New evidence on nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs por Ruel, Marie T.

“…It focuses on findings from impact evaluations of different types of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs, including biofortification, homestead food production systems, livestock transfer programs, value chains for nutritious foods, and irrigation programs. …”
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Building resilience through climate risk insurance: Insights from agricultural research for development por Kramer, Berber, Hellin, Jonathan, Hansen, James, Rose, Alison, Braun, Mélody

“…We highlight the contribution that agricultural research for development can play by providing data, methods, impact evaluations and other research products that can help strengthen and verify the impacts of insurance on resilience at scale. …”
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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned so far? por Ruel, Marie T., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Balagamwala, Mysbah

“…This paper reviews recent empirical evidence (since 2014), including findings from impact evaluations of a variety of NSA programs using experimental designs as well as observational studies that document linkages between agriculture, women's empowerment, and nutrition linkages. …”
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Pathways from women's group-based programs to nutrition change in South Asia: A conceptual framework and literature review por Kumar, Neha, Scott, Samuel P., Menon, Purnima, Kannan, Samyuktha, Cunningham, Kenda, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Future investigators should link process and impact evaluations to better understand the pathways from women's group participation to nutritional impact.…”
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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned and where do we go from here? por Ruel, Marie T., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Balagamwala, Mysbah

“…This paper reviews recent empirical evidence (since 2014), including findings from impact evaluations of a variety of NSA programs using experimental designs as well as observational studies that document linkages between agriculture, women’s empowerment, and nutrition. …”
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Key economic performance indicator por Gelan, Ayele, Muriithi, B., Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…The focus is on production and marketing aspects to establish a benchmark against which future economic performances of the project beneficiaries will be assessed during the project monitoring, review and final impact evaluations. Details are available in the baseline survey report No. 5.…”
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Does An Innovation’s Reach Reveal Anything About Its Impact? Under The Right Conditions: Possibly por Brooks, Matt, Lybbert, Travis J., Walker, Madeleine

“…Impact—the extent to which a specific innovation causally affects a target outcome—is an ideal measure of a program’s success. However, impact evaluations are time- and resource-intensive, making them unavailable in many circumstances. …”
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Rural labor supply and recall window sensitivity por Ambler, Kate, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Maredia, Mywish K.

“…These findings are especially relevant for impact evaluations and studies with constrained sample sizes.…”
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A systematic review of agricultural projects’ contributions to women’s empowerment por Gartaula, Hom Nath, Atreya, Kishor, Sapkota, Anisha, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Chadha, Deepali, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…This study systematically reviews the application of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in impact evaluations. Using Harzing’s “Publish or Perish” software, 626 articles published between 2012 and 2024 were initially retrieved, which were narrowed down to eight for detailed review, using the PRISMA framework. …”
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Impacts of conservation incentives in protected areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil por Cisneros, E., Borner, J., Pagiola, S., Wunder, Sven

“…Our findings add to the growing body of evidence showing that adverse spatial targeting of conservation incentives, i.e. disproportionally enrolling low–pressure sites, is a prime cause for the low additionality found in rigorous impact evaluations of many existing initiatives.…”
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Evaluating the impact of policy research: Evidence from the evaluation of rural policy research in developing countries por Slade, Roger, Hazell, Peter B. R., Place, Frank, Renkow, Mitch

“…This paper draws on existing evaluations of rural policy research to identify good practice in the conduct of impact evaluations in developing countries. While much has been learnt from these evaluations about how rural policy research can influence policies, the impact of the policy changes that may follow, and about methods for conducting such studies, very few have assessed the efficiency or economic benefit of rural policy research investments. …”
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades por Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Tasneem, Afia

“…Most impact evaluations of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) focus on the returns to increased human capital investments that will be reaped largely or exclusively in the future (e.g., when current children have increased productivities as adults). …”
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Linking smallholders to the new agricultural economy: The case of the plataformas de concertación in Ecuador por Cavatassi, Ramina, González-Flores, Mario, Winters, Paul, Andrade-Piedra, Jorge, Espinosa, Patricio, Thiele, Graham

“…The authors of Chapter 12 (Cavatassi et al.) performed an ex-post evaluation using econometric techniques common in impact evaluations. They assessed whether participation in Ecuador’s Plataformas program, which establishes alliances between small-scale farmers and a range of agricultural support-service providers, had any effect on income. …”
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