Dear Participants,

This is just a quick update about the conference on "Approaches and methodologies in ex post impact assessment (epIA) of agricultural research: Experiences, lessons learned and perspectives" which began on Monday.

Over 500 people have subscribed themselves from around the world.

The conference background document is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/as549e/as549e.pdf. It describes the main approaches and methodologies used for carrying out epIA of agricultural research. These were classified into two broad groups: macro-level assessments looking, for example, at the impacts of agricultural research at the regional or national level and micro-level assessments, looking at the impacts of specific research-derived interventions. The document also briefly considers the issue of how the epIA results are communicated to donors and policy-makers and how they subsequently use them. Section 4 of the document then provides a series of questions which participants are asked to address during the conference, covering issues such as how to assess impacts of agricultural research on environmental and social dimensions; the use of quantitative versus qualitative methods for epIA; the use of randomized controlled trials versus other methods for epIA; how to carry out cost-effective epIA and how best to communicate epIA results to donors and policy-makers.

A total of 11 messages have been posted in the conference so far, numbered chronologically, and these are also available on the web, at https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Impact-L 

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With best regards

John

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