During Phase I, the program has developed, validated, and deployed relevant, innovative farming technologies including high-value fruits and vegetables; improved livestock, feed and forage management; improved crop varieties; and sustainable agronomic practices. In Phase II, it aims to scale up and out validated innovations to over one million households by 2021 by working with several development partners. Given the five dimensions of sustainable intensification (productivity, economic, environmental, human, and social) and possible trade-offs among them, the program has also developed guide and tools for the sustainable intensification assessment framework (SIAF) through a collaboration with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification, USAID, Michigan State University, University of Florida, and Kansas State University.

The program has generated various types of data that are centrally managed by IFPRI through Dataverse. IFPRI has also developed a data management plan to assist with proper documentation of the evidence base necessary for gauging progress towards achieving program goals and increase program impact. An helpful guide of the minimum data needed for Monitoring and Evaluation of Africa RISING is also available here. IFPRI also supports the annual reporting of FtF indicators data through the Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool. As part of its impact assessment activities, IFPRI conducted five baseline evaluation household and community surveys in Malawi (in 2013) and Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia, and Tanzania (in 2014) using a quasi-experimental approach. These five datasets have been downloaded widely and extensively used Efforts are currently underway to collect follow-up data to assess program’s impact using panel data techniques.

IFPRI M&E team current activities are summarized in the Scope of Work for Phase II.