| Methodology Workshop, ILRI, 21st February
2005
The ILRI Process and Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy Change
Project seeks to identify and institutionalise innovative
research and development mechanism and approaches that lead
to pro-poor policy outcomes. A series of case studies focusing
on specific areas of policy change and in some cases specific
projects including in their objectives impacts at policy level,
will be carried out in Eastern Africa.
This methodology workshop was designed for people who will
be involved in the case studies to introduce some of the approaches
that can be used to evaluate policy impact.
The workshop included sessions on:
- The RAPID Framework - an analytical tool to explore the
wide range of factors that influence whether research results
are likely to influence policy including the external environment,
the political context, the evidence and the links between
them.
- A classical case study approach - tracking forward from
specific research and related activities and assessment
of impact.
- An ODI-style Episode Study of a specific policy change
- tracking back to identify key actors and decisions, and
assess the relative importance of different factors, which
might have included research-based evidence.
- A retrospective outcome mapping - identifying changes
in behaviour of key project stakeholders during the project,
and analysing what was done, or happened to bring them about.
The participants handout
(pdf 383kb) includes method notes and
examples of case studies, episode studies, outcome mapping
and a retrospective "RAPID Outcome Assessment" tool
that combines the episode study and outcome mapping approaches.
Two powerpoint presentations were used during the workshop:
Other material presented during the workshop included Kitengela
Site Activities (pdf 42kb) (A document
describing activities at the Kitengela site by David ole Nkedianye)
and Kitengela
Outcome Mapping Jan 2004 (pdf 30kb)
(notes of a recent Outcome Mapping review) which were presented
by Mohammed as an example of an ILRI project which is using
Outcome Mapping.
Participants comments and discussions are presented in the
Workshop Notes (pdf
53kb).
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