A plethora of tools have been developed to assess the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity of public institutions and international development organizations. Most of these tools, however, fall short of presenting a framework for understanding an organization’s capacity to develop systems to monitor and evaluate programs. Even where such tools exist, they differ in the components they assess, or fail to present a holistic approach to understanding M&E capacity.

1. RP Genetic Gains
Meeting with DDG-R
5 – 6 January 2021
Achievements, Challenges and
Opportunities
Geoffrey Muricho
&
Monitoring Learning & Evaluation team

2. Core areas of engagement
• Monitoring Learning
& Evaluation (MLE)
• Socioeconomic
research
EvaluateMonitor
Learn
Improve
Impacts

3. MLE Activities
Development of MLE plan for special projects
 Theory of Change (ToC)
 Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs) – Result Based MLE plan
 Data collection
 Feedback to coordination unit &
implementing partners
 Timely reporting to the donor

4. MLE Activities (Cont’d)
Digitization of MLE data collection and reporting
 Target: Special projects and RRP-ESA
 Collaborate with ICRISAT Digital
Agriculture & Youth (DAY)
 Move from paper based (analogue) to digital
data collection and reporting
 Enhanced reporting efficiency and
effectiveness (real time data collection)
 Increased data accuracy and integrity

5. MLE Activities (Cont’d)
Training and backstopping on MLE digital tools
 Target: CG, NARS & other
implementing partners
 Receive feedback for
improvement and customization
of tools

6. MLE Activities (Cont’d)
Timely preparation of donor reports
 Collation of micro-reports from different implementing partners
 Synthesizing and compiling final donor report within set timelines

7. Socioeconomic Research Activities
Impact assessment (TL III & HOPE II)
 TL III (Nigeria, Tanzania & Ethiopia)
 Household surveys including DNA-FP
sample collection already completed
 Data curation & analysis underway
 Publications at different levels of
completion

8. Socioeconomic Research Activities
Publications from TL III Nigeria data
 Groundnut gender yield gap in Nigeria (published in 2020)
 Groundnut adoption gap and productivity impacts in Nigeria
(under internal review)
 Improved groundnut variety impacts on poverty, food and
nutrition security in Nigeria (data analysis at an advanced
stage)

9. Socioeconomic Research Activities
HOPE II (Tanzania and Ethiopia)
 Household surveys including DNA-FP samples
collected in TZ
 Logistics for Ethiopia at advanced stage

10. Challenges
Digitization of data collection & reporting
Insecurity in project areas (Ethiopia & Nigeria)
 Internet connection
 Hardware (computers,
tablets & smart phones)
 Digital literacy
Restricted travel for monitoring (COVID-19)
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11. Thank You