Monitoring and Evaluation for Agriculture and Rural Development

M&E Frameworks in Agriculture and Rural Development

• ARD Conceptual Frameworks
• ARD Results Frameworks
• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• LogFrame - Design of ARD projects using LogFrame

Agriculture and Rural Development Indicators

• Indicator metrics
• Linking indicators to results
• Indicator Matrix
• ARD indicator performance tracking
• Sector-wide indicators for Agriculture and Rural Development
• Specific indicators for Sub-sectors of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Indicators for Thematic Areas related to Agriculture and Rural Development

M&E System and M&E Planning in ARD

• Importance of an M&E Plan
• Documenting M&E System in the M&E Plan
• Components of an M&E Plan-Monitoring, Evaluation, Data management, Reporting
• Using M&E Plan to implement M&E in a Project

Data Management for M&E in Agriculture and Rural Development

• Sources of Data: Information systems, surveys, participatory poverty assessments, financial management tools
• Use of different Surveys in data collection for ARD
• Participatory methods of data collection for ARD
• Data analysis for ARD

Gender integration in M&E for Agriculture and Rural Development

• Gender integration during project activities design
• Gender indicators in ARD
• Cross cutting gender issues in ARD
• Measure of gender outcomes

Performance Evaluation of Agricultural and Rural Development programs

• Determining evaluation points from the results framework
• Components of evaluations: implementation and process evaluations.
• Evaluation designs- experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental
• Performance evaluation process
• Evaluation questions
• Evaluation findings sharing and dissemination

Impact Evaluations for Agriculture and Rural Development

• Introduction to impact evaluation
• Attribution in impact evaluation
• Estimation of counterfactual
• Impact evaluation methods: Double difference, Propensity score matching