Monitoring and Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Agricultural Water Investments

• Tác giả: Mona Sur
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 628.7 Sanitary engineering for rural and sparsely populated areas
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 292580
• Chủ đề: 1. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; 2. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; 3. BASELINE SURVEYS; 4. BENEFICIARY GROUPS; 5. CHILD MORTALITY

Tóm tắt

 Monitoring and evaluating (M&E) the poverty impact of agricultural water investments may allow some conclusions about returns on different types of investments and their contributions to poverty reduction. This paper recommends the following: involve beneficiaries early in the M&E process -- broad consultations and early involvement of users in the design and implementation of the M&E system will do much to build consensus and ownership
  use beneficiary self-assessments and other participatory approaches so that assessments can be made midcourse -- there may be a long time lag in realizing a reduction in poverty from agricultural water-related projects, and the poverty impact often cannot be evaluated until well after a project ends
  keep the number of indicators collected within manageable proportions
  and ensure that a good baseline survey is undertaken -- without a proper baseline, it is difficult to monitor progress and evaluate the impacts of investments.