“Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development
Effectiveness.” Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel, Cairo, Egypt
March 29-April 2, 2009
Building the Sustainable Rural
Development Index in Asia and the
Pacific Region:
Scoreboard on the Levels of
Development of Rural Communities &
Country Performance in Rural
Development
Eva Benita A. Tuzon
angelic4112004@yahoo.com
Department of Agrarian Reform-Phillippines
Department of Agrarian Reform
Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City
Philippines
COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN
REFORM PROGRAM
http://www.dar.gov.ph
Background:
AGRARIAN REFORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
FRAMEWORK
Adopted in 1993 by DAR as its
key development strategy in the
provision of comprehensive
development interventions on
land tenure improvement (LTI),
agrarian justice [AJ] & program
beneficiaries development
(PBD).
CONSIDERATIONS FOR UP- SCALING
THE ALDA TOOL IN CIRDAP MEMBERCOUNTRIES
• Support to Poverty Alleviation Thrust of
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Countries
Locate Social Reform Character in programs
Multi-Agency Responsibility for RD
Implementation
Scope of the poverty reduction programs
Available and Prospective Resource Allocations
Institutional Capability of ministries and Other
link agencies
Locus & Focus: Rural Communities in
different countries
Replicating a Model:
WHAT IS AN ARC?
An Agrarian Reform
Community (ARC) is a
barangay [lowest
administrative unit] or
cluster of barangays where
there is a critical mass of
farmers and farmworkers
awaiting the full
implementation of the
Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program.
3 MODALITIES in rural
communities
Prime Agricultural
Areas
High Technology
High Productivity
Integrated
agribusiness
system approach
Semi-Prime
Areas
To provide production
support system to the
prime agricultural areas
To serve as midprocessing or market
centers for the relatively
inaccessible areas
Satellite Areas
Inaccessible, low soil
fertility, low
production
Inadequate facilities,
limited access to
government services
& farmers producing
more for subsistence
than for commerce
Basis for planning of interventions,
project development & budgeting
Informed decision-making
Organizational capacity
development & learning
Establishes substantive
accountability and
organizational positioning
PRINCIPLES
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Participatory/inclusive development
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Balance between quantitative and qualitative
data
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Contribution Analysis
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Wholistic/Integrated
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Poverty & culture sensitive tool
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Technology based
RD looks at different dimensions using 6 Key Result
Areas & 58 Indicators
7 indicators
5 indicators
Land Tenure
Improvement
Organizational
Gender &
Development
Basic Social
Services
Sustainable
Rural
Development
Index
Farm
Maturity
Economic &
Physical Infra
Support
Services
Productivity &
6 indicators
27 indicators
Income
5 indicators
8 indicators
KEY RESULT AREAS OF ALDA
1. LAND TENURE IMPROVEMENT (LTI)
 Focused on assessing the extent of land
acquisition and distribution, ownership,
cultivation and the improvement in tenurial
status of ARBs
2.
ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY (OM)
 Assess
the result of interventions under the
Organizational Building and Strengthening (OBAS)
KRA. This KRA deals with the assessment of the
organizational functionality and financial viability
of the ARB organizations in the ARCs
KEY RESULT AREAS
OF ALDA
3.
ECONOMIC & PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SUPPORT SERVICES (ECOPISS)
 Assesses the delivery of needed economic and physical
infrastructure support services to the ARCs, provision of
credit and marketing services, and rural-based industries
established to effect increase in ARBs productivity and
household income.
4. FARM PRODUCTIVITY & INCOME (FPI)
 Assesses the ARBs’ adoption of appropriate farming
technology to increase farm productivity and income.
KEY RESULT AREAS
OF ALDA
5.
BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES (BSS)
 Defines the existing basic social services in the
ARC and the extent of access of the households
to the services.
6.
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT (GAD)
 Assesses the access to land and economic
services, and the participation of women in
organizations and local governments
DEVELOPMENT OF SRDI
AS A BASIS FOR ALDA
WHY AN INDEX?
 Convenient way in summarizing many
components or indicators
 Aggregates all indicators and KRAs of
the ALDA incorporating the assigned
weights
 Useful in comparing many samples and
determining growth & development
trends
 Indicators are link to performance
measurement of different stakeholders
Indicators
Are variables with particular characteristics or
dimensions used for measuring progress towards
achievement of key result areas.
 Signposts to indicate movement towards a higher
level of development
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CHARACTERISTICS
Relevant – measuring factors that affect the
projects
 Selective – adequate and meaningful
 Clear – precisely defined so that their
measurement and interpretation is unambiguous
(more-or less – is unmistakably better)
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Analysis & Interpretation
1. Computation per index using
STATISTICA.
2. Determination of the levels of
development of the communities based
on the following thresholds for overall
rating. Communities are first classified
into three modalities:
Satellite, Semi-Prime, & Prime
Communities.
In each modality, thresholds are determined:
Level 1. Lower level of development
Level 2. Low-level of development
Level 3. Medium level of development
Level 4. High Medium Level of dev’t.
Level 5. Higher Level of development
Issues in building the SRDRI:
It entails a lot of groundwork at the country level
as it needs key players.
We need adequate support to undertake
advocacy-brainstorming sessions, forums, webdiscussions, conduct trainings, research,
workshops, and the application of knowledge
and for its sharing to others.
Establishing the index means evolving it based
on consensus, and sustain it s relevance by
incorporating those emerging issues
Examples, climate change and globalization.
WHAT WE ARE ASPIRING FOR?
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF PARTNERSHIPS
Impact: Peaceful, Healthy, Progressive Economic
Communities
Outcome:
effective regional
cooperation on RD
Outputs: KRAs
Inputs: various
resources
Sustainable
Rural
Development
Results Index in
Asia Pacific
region
Promotes Sustainable in Evolving
Partnerships* Relevant Databases on
Rural Development Results
GDPRD,
NONIE, 3IE, AFrEA
CIRDAP Headquarters
Link
Institutions,
e.g., BARBD
CIRDAP
Contact
Ministries,
e.g., DAR
Planning &
Budget
Agencies
Civil Society +
Private Sector
ALDA Generates from the grassroots relevant
indicative information on the varying needs and
capacities of people via impact evaluations
Our business is to make rural development results tangible in the CIRDAPmember countries
I sincerely
Eva Benita A. Tuzon
angelic4112004@yahoo.com