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Strengthening agricultural education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa from an innovation systems perspective: Case studies of Ethiopia and Mozambique by Davis, Kristin E., Ekboir, Javier, Mekasha, Wendmsyamregne, Ochieng, Cosmas M. O., Spielman, David J., Zerfu, Elias

“…The paper offers several recommendations that can contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of AET’s contribution to agricultural innovation and development. …”
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Institutional Considerations in Strengthening On-farm Client-Oriented Research in National Agricultural Research Systems: Lessons from a Nine-Country Study by Merrill-Sands, Deborah, Biggs, Stephen D., Bingen, R. James, Ewell, Peter T.

“…Sound research methods alone are not sufficient.This paper reviews key policy, organizational and managerial considerations for integrating on-farm client-oriented research as an effective and stable component of national agricultural research systems. …”
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Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations by Horton, Douglas, Alexaki, Anastasia, Bennett-Lartey, Samuel, Brice, Kim N., Campilan, Dindo, Carden, Fred, Souza Silva, José de, Le Thanh Duong, Khadar, Ibrahim, Maestrey Boza, Albina, Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul, Perez, Jocelyn, Somarriba Chang, Matilde, Vernooy, Ronnie, Watts, Jamie

“…When conducted in a participatory and structured way, evaluation can make a substantial contribution to improving overall organizational performance.…”
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Irrigated vegetable production interventions in humanitarian emergencies: Ethiopia country deep dive by Singh, Radhika, Minh, Thai Thi, Schmitter, Petra S.

“…Lastly, organizational learning should be improved through data and knowledge management. …”
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Report of the CGIAR Sub-Saharan Africa Task Forces : the Tervuren Consensus by CGIAR Task Force on Sub-Saharan Africa

“…TF2 was given the task of reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of the existing System arrangements and identify opportunities for organizational adjustments towards increasing effectiveness and efficiency of CGIAR research. …”
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Strengthening and harmonizing food policy systems to achieve food security: A case study and lessons from Ghana by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Blom, Sylvia

“…In this paper, we study the factors contributing to the effectiveness of a policy system. The process of policy design, adoption, implementation, and refinement requires an effective policy system as well as a capacitated and supportive institutional structure. …”
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Zero deforestation agreements in Colombia: Outcomes in the beef and dairy, and cocoa supply chains by Ortiz, Daniel, Camilo, Karen, Buritica, Alexander, Castro, Augusto, Reyes, Byron

“…However, weak traceability, misaligned incentives, and strong frontier dynamics continue to constrain their effectiveness. In contrast, in the cocoa sector, characterized by high organizational coverage and agroforestry-compatible production systems, ZDAs have been more effective in consolidating low-deforestation pathways, reinforcing sustainable production models, and facilitating alignment with emerging international due diligence and traceability requirements. …”
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Strategies for restructuring the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria: Process, opportunities, and lessons by Babu, Suresh Chandra, Oyedipe, E. O., Ajakaiye, Olusanya, Ajoni, K.

“…This paper aims to develop specific strategies for reforming the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) for achieving greater efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability through its constituent institutions. …”
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The role of evaluation in strengthening agricultural R&D in sub-saharan Africa: information, instruments, and actors by Oruko, Leonard, Elliott, Howard

“…Finally, monitoring paces the reform process in three critical ways: (1) it corrects pathways to new objectives as needed; (2) it measures the efficiency and effectiveness of implementation; and (3) it identifies organizational, institutional, and systemic constraints to achievement of objectives. …”
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Public expenditure and institutional review: Ghana’s ministry of food and agriculture by Kolavalli, Shashidhara, Birner, Regina, Benin, Samuel, Horowitz, Leah, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Thompson, Nii Moi, Poku, John, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…A thorough understanding of the public expenditure environment in the Ministry is needed to develop effective strategies to strengthen its capabilities. …”
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Access to and use of video-mediated agricultural information: lessons from the case of Sasakawa global 2000 rice videos in Uganda by Karubanga, G., Kibwika, P., Sseguya, H., Okry, F.

“…However, its effectiveness to enhance access to and use of information depends on certain organizational, social, economic and technical factors. …”
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Improving Scaling Performance in Research for Development: Learning from a Realist Evaluation of the Scaling Readiness Approach by Damtew, Elias, Douthwaite, Boru, Schut, M., Sartas, M., Leeuwis, C.

“…However, limited attention has been given to critically examining the underlying causal assumptions of CSDSAs and their overall effectiveness in navigating complexity and achieving desired outcomes. …”
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Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands by Swallow, B.M., Bromley, D.W.

“…A common property regime can only be effective if its institutionsare compatible with the structure of governance. …”
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Procesos organizativos, regulación y tecnologías para el manejo y conservación del recurso hídrico y mitigación de la sequía, subcuenca del río Aguas Calientes, Nicaragua by Lorío Berríos, A.L.

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Community natural resource management: The case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Pender, J.L., Tesfay, G.

“…The negative effect of external organizational presence suggests that external organizations are displacing local efforts to protect woodlots. …”
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Building Capacity in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation: Lessons from the Field by Horton, Douglas

“…Nine lessons are drawn: (1) Project design is much more than a technical process; it is essentially one of negotiation. (2) In capacity-building projects, design activities cannot end when implementation begins. (3) A priority for capacity-building efforts is to prepare managers to deal with complexity, uncertainty and change.(4) In capacity-building efforts, don't patronize managers, but seek to collaborate as equals.(5) Organizational assessment is a complex social process, intertwined with organizational politics. (6) In designing capacity-building projects, it is essential to involve managers and staff members in assessing needs and opportunities. (7) Action-learning strategies offer great potential for capacity building. (8) In the context of strategic management and organizational learning, PM&E take on new meanings. (9) Training is most effective when it is designed to serve a purpose within an organizational change process. …”
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Harvesting hope for climate action and food systems in a grave new world by Schuttenbelt, Daan, Thorton, Philip, Dinesh, Dhanush, Loboguerrero, Ana Maria, Martinez-Baron, Deissy

“…Some planned, concrete actions for each element are briefly described—the early stages of an organizational experiment to gauge their effectiveness in contributing to food system reconfiguration at different scales.…”
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Diagnostic study of the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) in Bangladesh: Current structure, output, and analytical capacity (human and logistical) by Dorosh, Paul A., Ali, Shawkat, Bin Khaled, Muhammad Nahian, Mustafa, Shoumi

“…This diag-nostic study, based on a review of documents, interviews of FPMU staff and other government offi-cials, stakeholder consultations and synthesis of findings, assesses the organizational structure, management, technical performance (data management and direct support to food implemen-tation) and capacity strengthening needs to provide insights on how to further enhance the FPMU’s effectiveness.…”
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Promoting productivity and market access technologies and approaches to improve farm income and livelihoods in Ethiopia: Lessons from action research projects by Mekonnen, Kindu, Yasabu, Simret, Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Woldemeskel, Endalkachew, Tegegne, Azage, Thorne, Peter J.

“…Improved awareness about the technical, organizational and institutional interventions tested and validated by the projects; 2. …”
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Evaluating Capacity Development: Experiences from Research and Development Organizations around the World by Horton, Douglas, Alexaki, Anastasia, Bennett-Lartey, Samuel, Brice, Kim N., Campilan, Dindo, Carden, Fred, Souza Silva, J. de, Le Thanh Duong, Khadar, Ibrahim, Maestrey Boza, Albina, Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul, Perez, Jocelyn, Somarriba Chang, Matilde, Vernooy, Ronnie, Watts, Jamie

“…Although ensuring the effectiveness of a capacity building effort requires appropriate use of evaluation, few organizations have implemented a system for monitoring or evaluating the changes taking place during organizational development. …”
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