A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries
Over the last decade, societal pressure has increased on public research agencies to provide evidence that their research contributes to achieve development goals. To address this challenge, the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (Cirad), developed an ex-post impact assessment method based on the impact pathway approach, called Impact of Research in the South (ImpresS). The reconstruction of the impact pathway identifies and assesses research outputs, outcomes, and impacts on development over long-time spans, taking into account the contribution of other stakeholders, projects, and contextual factors. By applying mixed methods and participatory approaches, ImpresS involves key actors in assessing the contribution of research to impacts in innovation processes. Such a participatory approach raises, however, questions about the advantages and disadvantages of participation in impact assessment. This article examines whether and how participation affects the results of an evaluation and the methodological challenges this poses. The analysis is based on 13 case studies covering different innovation processes, countries, and time spans. The main results show that participation, combined with triangulation of information including quantitative and qualitative data, strengthens the explanation of the causal relationships among outputs, outcomes, and impacts. It helps reveal a large and diversified list of impacts based on the perception of actors, especially uncovering positive and negative impacts unexpected by researchers. However, participation may render other impacts less visible, especially those related to environmental and political issues. Furthermore, participatory evaluation entangles challenges linked to expectations, divergent perceptions, power dynamics, and social inequality, which must be carefully addressed to provide robust and transparent evaluation results.
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dig-cirad-fr-5948822024-01-29T02:34:15Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/594882/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/594882/ A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries. Faure Guy, Blundo Canto Genowefa, Devaux-Spatarakis Agathe, Le Guérroue Jean-Louis, Mathe Syndhia, Temple Ludovic, Toillier Aurélie, Triomphe Bernard, Hainzelin Etienne. 2020. Research Evaluation, 29 (2) : 158-170.https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz036 <https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz036> A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries Faure, Guy Blundo Canto, Genowefa Devaux-Spatarakis, Agathe Le Guérroue, Jean-Louis Mathe, Syndhia Temple, Ludovic Toillier, Aurélie Triomphe, Bernard Hainzelin, Etienne eng 2020 Research Evaluation A50 - Recherche agronomique E14 - Économie et politique du développement recherche agronomique approche participative évaluation de l'impact innovation politique d'innovation pays en développement http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8679 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_9000119 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37938 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27560 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29bd5896 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2222 Over the last decade, societal pressure has increased on public research agencies to provide evidence that their research contributes to achieve development goals. To address this challenge, the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (Cirad), developed an ex-post impact assessment method based on the impact pathway approach, called Impact of Research in the South (ImpresS). The reconstruction of the impact pathway identifies and assesses research outputs, outcomes, and impacts on development over long-time spans, taking into account the contribution of other stakeholders, projects, and contextual factors. By applying mixed methods and participatory approaches, ImpresS involves key actors in assessing the contribution of research to impacts in innovation processes. Such a participatory approach raises, however, questions about the advantages and disadvantages of participation in impact assessment. This article examines whether and how participation affects the results of an evaluation and the methodological challenges this poses. The analysis is based on 13 case studies covering different innovation processes, countries, and time spans. The main results show that participation, combined with triangulation of information including quantitative and qualitative data, strengthens the explanation of the causal relationships among outputs, outcomes, and impacts. It helps reveal a large and diversified list of impacts based on the perception of actors, especially uncovering positive and negative impacts unexpected by researchers. However, participation may render other impacts less visible, especially those related to environmental and political issues. Furthermore, participatory evaluation entangles challenges linked to expectations, divergent perceptions, power dynamics, and social inequality, which must be carefully addressed to provide robust and transparent evaluation results. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/594882/1/Faure%20et%20al%2C%202020_impact.pdf text Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz036 10.1093/reseval/rvz036 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvz036 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz036 |
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Over the last decade, societal pressure has increased on public research agencies to provide evidence that their research contributes to achieve development goals. To address this challenge, the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (Cirad), developed an ex-post impact assessment method based on the impact pathway approach, called Impact of Research in the South (ImpresS). The reconstruction of the impact pathway identifies and assesses research outputs, outcomes, and impacts on development over long-time spans, taking into account the contribution of other stakeholders, projects, and contextual factors. By applying mixed methods and participatory approaches, ImpresS involves key actors in assessing the contribution of research to impacts in innovation processes. Such a participatory approach raises, however, questions about the advantages and disadvantages of participation in impact assessment. This article examines whether and how participation affects the results of an evaluation and the methodological challenges this poses. The analysis is based on 13 case studies covering different innovation processes, countries, and time spans. The main results show that participation, combined with triangulation of information including quantitative and qualitative data, strengthens the explanation of the causal relationships among outputs, outcomes, and impacts. It helps reveal a large and diversified list of impacts based on the perception of actors, especially uncovering positive and negative impacts unexpected by researchers. However, participation may render other impacts less visible, especially those related to environmental and political issues. Furthermore, participatory evaluation entangles challenges linked to expectations, divergent perceptions, power dynamics, and social inequality, which must be carefully addressed to provide robust and transparent evaluation results. |
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Faure, Guy Blundo Canto, Genowefa Devaux-Spatarakis, Agathe Le Guérroue, Jean-Louis Mathe, Syndhia Temple, Ludovic Toillier, Aurélie Triomphe, Bernard Hainzelin, Etienne |
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A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries |
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A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries |
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A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries |
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A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries |
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A participatory method to assess the contribution of agricultural research to societal changes in developing countries |
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