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TRANSFORMING IMPACT ASSESSMENT: BEGINNING THE QUIET REVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING AND CHANGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2008

JAMIE WATTS ,
DOUGLAS HORTON ,
BORU DOUTHWAITE ,
ROBERTO LA ROVERE ,
GRAHAM THIELE ,
SHAMBU PRASAD  and
CHARLES STAVER
JAMIE WATTS*
Affiliation:
Bioversity International, Via dei Tre Denari 472a, 00057, Rome, Italy
DOUGLAS HORTON
Affiliation:
Consultant, 7224 Treymore Ct., Sarasota, FL 34243, USA
BORU DOUTHWAITE
Affiliation:
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Apartado Aereo 6713, Cali, Colombia
ROBERTO LA ROVERE
Affiliation:
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Km. 45, Carretera Mexico-Veracruz, El Batan, Texcoco, CP 56130México
GRAHAM THIELE
Affiliation:
International Potato Center/Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Av. La Molina 1895, La Molina, Lima, Peru
SHAMBU PRASAD
Affiliation:
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 751 013, India
CHARLES STAVER
Affiliation:
Bioversity International, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, 34397 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
*
†Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: j.watts@cgiar.org
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Summary

Scores of assessments of the impacts of agricultural research have been carried out over the years. However, few appear to have been used to improve decision making and the effectiveness of research programmes. The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative emerged within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), with the goal of strengthening learning from experience and using lessons to improve pro-poor innovation. It is testing approaches for expanding the contributions of impact assessment and evaluation to learning, decision making and improvement.

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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 21 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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