Africa RISING Evaluation Design
Carlo Azzarri, Beliyou Haile, Cleo Roberts
IFPRI
Africa RISING M&E Meeting
13-14 November 2014, Arusha, Tanzania
Site stratification
Country
Ethiopia
Data layers
Elevation, rainfall, population, market access,
livestock density, wheat producing, AGP woredas,
Ghana & Mali Population, rainfall, elevation, market access, farming
systems
Malawi
Elevation, temperature-adjusted rainfall
Tanzania
Elevation and rainfall
Zambia
Rainfall and elevation (*SIMLEZA)
…and ground-truthing with AR researchers
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Evaluation Design
Action sites
Control sites
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(B)
(NB)
Beneficiary
households
Non-beneficiary
households
Spillovers & site
targeting
Impact and site &
household targeting
(C)
Control households
• Malawi, Tanzania,
Ghana : B+NB+C
• Mali:
B+C
• Ethiopia: B+NB
AR action and control sites
Country
Region [District]
Number of sites
Ethiopia
Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, SNNP
8 action
Ghana
Upper West [Wa Municipal, Wa West**,
Nadowli**, Wa East*]
Upper East [Kassena-Nankana, Bongo,
Bawku, Talensi-Nabdam*]
Northern [Savelugu**, Tolon, Mion, West
Mamprus*]
25 action/25 control
Mali
Bougouni, Yanfolila, Koutiala
10 action/10 control
Malawi
[Dedza and Ntcheu]
26 action/28 control†
Tanzania
Dodoma and Manyara [Babati, Kongwa, and
Kiteto]
7 + 4 action/14 control
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Household sample size for ARBES
Country
Ethiopia
AR beneficiaries (B)
Control (C) Total
-
523
472 + 150
451
200 (25X8)
500 (25X20)
Mali
350
-
350 (10X35)
1322
700
Malawi
452
200 (26X8*)
560 (28X20)
1212
Tanzania
108 + 434
105 (7X15)
270 (18X15)
917
1966
505
1680
4674
Ghana
Total
72
Non-beneficiaries (NB)
• B: Census (Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia) or random sample(Ghana,
Mali )
• NB & C: Random sampling
• 4434 completed interviews (~5% non-response)
• Community surveys in 150 communities
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Some Africa RISING innovations
Country
Technologies
Malawi
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On-farm adaptive agronomic experimentation (WP1)
Integration of climbing beans (WP2)
Livestock intensification (WP3)
Nutritional status improvement and diversification (WP4)
Dissemination, impact and networking (WP5)
Tanzania
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Assessment of biophysical production constraints (WP1)
Improved food and feed crop varieties (WP2)
Improved fodder species (WP3)
Local fertilizer & technology complementarities (WP4)
Evaluation of mycotoxin contamination (WP5)
Postharvest nutrition technologies (WP6)
Ethiopia
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Field crop varietal selection and management
Land, soil, water management
Integrated disease and pest management
Tree-crop-livestock integration for improved biomass, nutrient, energy
efficiency and carbon sequestration
• Monitoring and evaluating the impact of innovation platforms
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Some Africa RISING innovations
Country
Technologies
Ghana
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Intercropping, crop rotation and diversification, post-harvest loss
reduction, ISFM (WP2)
Biological control of Aflatoxins in maize and groundnut (WP3)
Integration of vegetables into cereal-legume systems (WP4)
Improving productivity of integrated crop-livestock systems
(WP7)
Land, soil, and water management (WP8)
Mali
• Improvement of farm productivity and profitability (WP5)
• Natural resources management (WP9)
Ghana & Mali
• R4D platforms (WP1)
• Intensifying livestock and poultry production (WP6)
• Improving household nutrition through agricultural and
behavioral changes (WP10)
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