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Development of Methodology

Page history last edited by Cristina Lamb Guevara 10 years, 4 months ago

 

Researchers from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT - Spanish acronym), WorldFish Center and the International Potato Center (CIP - Spanish acronym), together with two evaluation specialists, have been developing PIPA.

 

PIPA initially grew from work at CIAT on innovation histories funded by ILAC ('ILAC Brief no. 5' – Douthwaite and Ashby', 2005). A paper describing the approach ('Impact Pathway Evaluation of an Integrated Striga hermonthica Control Project in Northern Nigeria' Douthwaite et al., 2003 and 2007has been accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation.

 

It was first used in a workshop in January 2006 in Ghana, with seven projects funded by the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). To date, nine PIPA workshops have been held for 46 projects (this statement needs to be updated). 

 

PIPA centers on a three-day workshop in which ideally project implementers, participating next users, end users and politically-important actors attend. Next users are the people and organizations who will use what the project will produce while end users are the people the next users serve. Clients and beneficiaries are synonyms for next users and end users. Politically-important actors are those people and organizations that can help create an enabling environment for the project, but with which the project does not directly work.

 

The workshop process is designed to help participants surface, discuss and describe their hypotheses for how project activities and outputs could eventually contribute to desired goals such as poverty reduction. The description of these hypotheses is a description of the project’s impact pathways. 

 

 

PIPA has helped workshop participants to:

 

  • Clarify, reach mutual understanding and communicate their project’s intervention logic and its potential for achieving impact;

  • Understand other projects working in the same program and identify areas for collaboration;

  • Generate a feeling of common purpose and better programmatic integration (when more than one project is represented in the workshop);

  • Produce a narrative describing the project's intervention logic and possible future impacts (thus a form of ex-ante impact assessment);

  • Produce a framework for subsequent monitoring and evaluation.

 

To see which projects are currently developing PIPA click here.

 

 

 

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