Overview of the CRP Commissioned External Evaluation on the value chain approach

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    • Presentation speakers
      • Keith Child, Principal Scientist - Impact Assessment and Learning

    Some CCEE Highlights

    1. Program theories of change are not sufficient for setting research priorities orĀ assessing progress.
    2. Greater need for cross sight learning and business development capacity
    3. Value chain teams are underfunded and understaffed
    4. Need to focus on multiple systems levels
    5. More feedback from value chains to technical flagships
    6. A strong commitment to multidisciplinarity
    7. More focus on private sector partnerships
    8. More attention to future scaling of innovations

     

 

7 Comments

 

  1. ibaltenweck 23. March 2015

    I can't watch Keith's presentation, am I the only one?

  2. Keith_Child 23. March 2015

    I cant make it work either!

  3. Keith_Child 24. March 2015

    It works now!

  4. anasr 24. March 2015

    Hi Keith
    fully agree with your highlighted point.
    so VC team need strengthen in program countries.
    Also agree about the need for feed back mechanism from VC team to science team to enable scientific research serving business needs to create development.
    for us in Egypt the main problem is how to bring policy maker on the table with other important player across the chains .

  5. Birthe 25. March 2015

    I like the point on communication bw flagships and VC as emphasized before from within the CRP...

  6. a.mulema@cgiar.org'
    amulema 26. March 2015

    Keith, thanks for the presentation. We all acknowledge the importance of engaging with the private sector more. But there needs to be incentives to drive private sector engagement. The private sector can be engaged in projects that produce short-term results and products that are appealing to the end users. Most of our work aims at research that addresses the needs of smallholder farmers who in most cases have poor market access. In addition, the results from these interventions are long-term and generate public goods. Therefore getting commitment from private sector becomes a challenges.

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