The overall purpose of this training workshop is to build the institutional capacity to conduct impact assessment. The specific objectives are to build skills and knowledge in the following areas so that the participants are in a position to apply these skills in their day-to-day work:
- Various aspects of planning
- R&D evaluation
- Adoption studies
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Impact assessment methods
- Management for impact
In addition a number of related topics will also be covered during the workshop. The training program responds directly to the needs identified during the various stakeholder consultation workshops in the region.
This workshop uses the experiential learning approach, which involves procedures to encourage participation and provide hands-on, problem-solving experiences and abilities.
The Participant Action Plan Approach (PAPA) is used to facilitate follow-up with participants in order to assess the outcomes and impact of the training in the participants’ institutions.
- Emerging paradigms in R&D
- Various aspects of planning
- Concept of monitoring, evaluation and impact
- Evaluation types, purpose, characteristics, process and context
- Utilization focused evaluation
- Participatory evaluation
- Overview of R&D evaluation methods
- Impact types and overview of impact assessment methods
- Strategies for impact assessment
- Logical framework and impact assessment
- Concept and definitions of financial and economic analysis
- Steps in project analysis
- Estimation of rates of returns for R&D investment-economic surplus approach and econometrics methods
- Spill-overs and impact assessment
- Non-market environmental and social benefits and gender impacts valuation techniques