Africa RISING Evaluation Design

Carlo Azzarri, Beliyou Haile, Cleo RobertsIFPRI

Africa RISING M&E Meeting13-14 November 2014, Arusha, Tanzania

Site stratification

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Country Data layersEthiopia 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)

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(B)Beneficiary households

(NB)Non-beneficiary

households

(C)Control households

Action sites Control sites

Spillovers & site targeting

Impact and site & household targeting

Evaluation Design

• Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana : B+NB+C

• Mali: B+C• Ethiopia: B+NB

AR action and control sites

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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

Household sample size for ARBES

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Country AR beneficiaries (B) Non-beneficiaries (NB) Control (C) Total Ethiopia 72 451 - 523

Ghana 472 + 150 200 (25X8) 500 (25X20) 1322

Mali 350 - 350 (10X35)

700

Malawi 452 200 (26X8*) 560 (28X20)

1212

Tanzania 108 + 434 105 (7X15) 270 (18X15)

917

Total 1966 505 1680 4674• 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

Some Africa RISING innovations

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Country Technologies Malawi • On-farm adaptive agronomic experimentation (WP1)

• Integration of climbing beans (WP2)• Livestock intensification (WP3)• Nutritional status improvement and diversification (WP4)• Dissemination, impact and networking (WP5)

Tanzania • Assessment of biophysical production constraints (WP1)• Improved food and feed crop varieties (WP2)• Improved fodder species (WP3)• Local fertilizer & technology complementarities (WP4)• Evaluation of mycotoxin contamination (WP5)• Postharvest nutrition technologies (WP6)

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

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Country Technologies Ghana • Intercropping, crop rotation and diversification, post-harvest loss

reduction, ISFM (WP2)• Biological control of Aflatoxins in maize and groundnut (WP3)• Integration of vegetables into cereal-legume systems (WP4)• Improving productivity of integrated crop-livestock systems (WP7)• Land, soil, and water management (WP8)

Mali • Improvement of farm productivity and profitability (WP5)• Natural resources management (WP9)

Ghana & Mali • R4D platforms (WP1)• Intensifying livestock and poultry production (WP6)• Improving household nutrition through agricultural and behavioral

changes (WP10)

Some Africa RISING innovations

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