Africa RISING Evaluation Design Carlo Azzarri Beliyou Haile
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 2
Evaluation Design Action sites Control sites ( (B) Beneficiary households (NB) 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 4
Household sample size for ARBES Country Ethiopia AR beneficiaries (B) Control (C) Total - 523 472 + 150 451 200 (25 X 8) 500 (25 X 20) Mali 350 - 350 (10 X 35) 1322 700 Malawi 452 200 (26 X 8*) 560 (28 X 20) 1212 108 + 434 105 (7 X 15) 270 (18 X 15) 917 1966 505 1680 4674 Ghana Tanzania 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 5
Some Africa RISING innovations Country Technologies Malawi • • • On-farm adaptive agronomic experimentation (WP 1) Integration of climbing beans (WP 2) Livestock intensification (WP 3) Nutritional status improvement and diversification (WP 4) Dissemination, impact and networking (WP 5) Tanzania • • • Assessment of biophysical production constraints (WP 1) Improved food and feed crop varieties (WP 2) Improved fodder species (WP 3) Local fertilizer & technology complementarities (WP 4) Evaluation of mycotoxin contamination (WP 5) Postharvest nutrition technologies (WP 6) Ethiopia • • 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 6
Some Africa RISING innovations Country Technologies Ghana • • • Intercropping, crop rotation and diversification, post-harvest loss reduction, ISFM (WP 2) Biological control of Aflatoxins in maize and groundnut (WP 3) Integration of vegetables into cereal-legume systems (WP 4) Improving productivity of integrated crop-livestock systems (WP 7) Land, soil, and water management (WP 8) Mali • Improvement of farm productivity and profitability (WP 5) • Natural resources management (WP 9) Ghana & Mali • R 4 D platforms (WP 1) • Intensifying livestock and poultry production (WP 6) • Improving household nutrition through agricultural and behavioral changes (WP 10) 7
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