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Monitoring, evaluation and learning in the SRI Lower Mekong Basin project
Michael Loevinsohn
Institute of Development Studies, U.K.
SRI Regional Project Inception Workshop, Bangkok, 10 April 2013
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What should responsive monitoring and evaluation look like?
• Clear, accurate pictures: what is happening? • Information on questions of local concern • Feeding decisions:
– Revising the content of FFS and its research – Community deliberations e.g. field days – Policy deliberations national, regional, global
• Information in a form that is meaningful and available in a timely fashion
• Early indications of unintended consequences – Social and environmental
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Major questions
• What are farmers doing with what they learn about SRI in their fields and what do they achieve? – What directions does innovation take? – Among which farmers is innovation proceeding? – Where is it stagnating? – What are the exceptional innovations? – What are the production, income and other benefits? – Do other farmers learn and adapt new practices?
• How do the new cropping practices respond to extreme weather events?
• What are the responses to and impacts on the landless and other marginalized groups?
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How will it be done?
• Trained monitors/evaluators visit FFS graduates and non-graduates 2 times per season – Continuing over life of project ¼ of FFS – Inquire about practices in different fields – What outcomes achieved? – Observations, obstacles, opportunities – Do other farmers learn and adapt new practices?
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How will it be done?
• How do the new cropping practices respond to extreme weather events?
• Flooding, drought, high winds can be expected to hit at least one of the sites across 10 provinces each year
• Teams (researchers, monitors, trainers) prepared to respond: assess degree of exposure and outcomes in the fields of graduates/non graduates
Clearer understanding of resistance of SRI-like crops to extreme events
Understand how livelihoods are benefited
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How will it be done?
• What are the responses to and impacts on the landless and other marginalized group
• Visit sample of landless households • Follow their responses to new opportunities • Extent to which their earnings are impacted