USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) invited me to be the “Thought Leader in Learning” last April and to present at a seminar on the Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) methodology. Two years ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the Knowledge Management Impact Challenge UnConference where many of the same challenges of
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I had the opportunity to facilitate a meeting of representatives of the four Centers (CIP, CIAT, Bioversity, IITA) and other partners of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) in CIAT (March 20- 22). This CRP has been in the intensive process of establishing the foundations for results based management, thus
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Within chapter 14, Strengthening Capacity to Achieve Eco-Efficiency through Agricultural Research for Development of the Eco- efficiency: from Vision to Reality CIAT publication, we have a section on Reaching users through Monitoring and Evaluation. In it, we discuss the concepts of M&E for learning, the importance of fostering an “evaluative culture” in organizations, especially those
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This past week in the PABRA Knowledge Sharing workshop, we had a full afternoon doing a People- centered Outcomes exercise. (Not to be confused with, but closely linked to People Centered Evaluation (PCE) approach) The whole session went well, and we were pleasantly surprised to see how people responded to the exercises by staying late
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As part of an effort to improve the way we collect, store, monitor and use information regarding our capacity strengthening efforts at CIAT, we have been collaborating with Arturo Franco, Carolina Garcia and Daniel Cruz of the Databases team on the organization and re- design of our database and its user interphase INFORCAP. On one
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