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1 Douthwaite, B.; Ekboir, J. M.; Twomlow, S. J.; Keatinge, J. D. H. 2005. The concept of integrated natural resource management (INRM) and its implications for developing evaluation methods. In Shiferaw, B.; Freeman, H. A.; Swinton, S. M. (Eds.). Natural resources management in agriculture: methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.321-340.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 SHI Record No: H040987)
2 Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, F.; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S.; Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, Vidal; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.) 2008. Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.1. Keynotes; Cross-cutting topics. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 183p.
Water resources development ; Water resource management ; Water use ; Water law ; Fisheries ; Livestock ; Water productivity ; Malaria ; Waterborne diseases ; Wastewater irrigation ; Water market ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Water governance ; Water allocation ; Farming systems ; Irrigation systems ; Models ; Remote sensing ; Watershed management ; River basins ; Poverty ; Climate change / Africa / Asia / South East Asia / Latin America / Ethiopia / Ghana / Sudan / China / India / Nepal / Iran / Botswana / Pakistan / South Africa / Brazil / Laos / Thailand
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041767)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3706/IFWF2_proceedings_Volume%20I.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041767.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041767.pdf
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3 Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, Francis; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S.; Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.) 2008. Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.2. Increasing rainwater productivity; Multi-purpose water systems. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 297p.
Water resource management ; Water productivity ; River basins ; Water quality ; Groundwater ; Irrigation management ; Rice ; Water conservation ; Irrigated farming ; Rainfed farming ; Water harvesting ; Livestock ; Agroecosystems ; Gender ; Soil salinity ; Fertilizers ; Fisheries ; Reservoirs ; Irrigation systems ; Floodplains ; Irrigation systems ; Models ; Watershed management ; Lakes / South East Asia / Bangladesh / China / Cambodia / India / Africa / Zimbabwe / Iran / Ethiopia / South Africa / Vietnam / Colombia / Bhutan / Thailand
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041790)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3707/IFWF2_proceedings_Volume%20II.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041790.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041790.pdf
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4 Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, Francis; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S.; Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.) 2008. Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.3. Water benefits sharing for poverty alleviation and conflict management; Drivers and processes of change. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 217p.
Water resource management ; Conflict ; Reservoirs ; Dams ; River basins ; Groundwater ; Electricity supplies ; Policy ; Poverty ; Analysis ; Watersheds ; Water productivity ; Irrigated farming / Africa / Ghana / South Africa / Mozambique / Zimbabwe / Ethiopia / Asia / India / Bangladesh / Iran / South East Asia / Thailand / Cambodia / Nepal / Latin America
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041791)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3708/IFWF2_proceedings_Volume%20III.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041791.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041791.pdf
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5 Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, Francis; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S.; Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.) 2008. Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.4. Project posters by phase 1 projects of the Challenge Program on Water and Food. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 40p.
River basin development ; Water resource management ; Water productivity ; Soil management ; Salinity ; Crop management ; Agroforestry ; Collective action ; Models ; Wetlands ; Dams ; Reservoirs ; Livestock ; Wastewater irrigation ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Groundwater ; Water governance ; Poverty ; Climate change ; Water allocation ; Rice / Africa / Ethiopia / Asia / South East Asia / Iran / Vietnam / Bangladesh / Nepal / Colombia / Volta River Basin / Indo-Gangetic River Basin / Nile River Basin / Karkheh River Basin / Mekong River Basin / Red River Basin / Yellow River Basin / Andes
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041792)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3709/IFWF2_proceedings_Volume%20IV.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041792.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041792.pdf
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6 Schuetz, Tonya; Douthwaite, B.; Alvarez, S. 2009. Participatory impact pathways analysis (PIPA) In Andreini, Marc; Schuetz, Tonya; Harrington, Larry (Eds.). Small reservoirs toolkit, theme 1: intervention planning. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Brasilia, DF, Brasil: Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa Cerrados Center); Harare, Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe (UZ); Accra, Ghana: Ghana Water Research Institution (WRI); Delft, The Netherlands: Delft University of Technology (TUD); Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); Marseille, France: Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Bonn, Germany: Center for Development Research, University of Bonn; Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University. 11p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042663)
This tool will assist those planning research on or interventions for small reservoirs systems to use Impact Pathways Analysis to develop a plan to better bring about desired outputs, outcomes and impacts. By helping make explicit the links between project activities or program interventions on the one hand, and partner roles and inter- relationships on the other. The likelihood of achieving greater better impacts may be improved. How the Impact Pathway Analysis was found useful in the Small Reservoirs Project is presented.
7 Harrington, L. W.; Douthwaite, B.; de Leon, C.; Woolley, J. 2008. Stories from the field: a most significant change synthesis. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 43p. (CPWF Working Paper 002)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042835)
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3723/CPWF_Working_Paper_02.pdf?sequence=5
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042835.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042835.pdf
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8 de Leon, C.; Douthwaite, B.; Alvarez, S. (Eds.) 2009. Most significant change stories from the Challenge Program on Water and Food. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 93p. (CPWF Working Paper 003)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042836)
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3763/CPWF_Working_Paper_03.pdf?sequence=3
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042836.pdf
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9 Douthwaite, B.. 2002. Enabling innovation: a practical guide to understanding and fostering technological innovation. London, England: Zed Books. 266p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 303.483 G570 DOU Record No: H042973)
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An agricultural engineer takes a critical look at his research work in Asia in designing technologies for and with small-scale rice farmers, and reflects on the many failures in developing appropriate technology when there is no awareness of the social processes involved in innovation and technology diffusion. Using not only these experiences but also examples from industry, economy and information technology in both industrialised and developing countries, he argues that successful innovation is based on opening up to diversity, grasping opportunities and mobilising creativity among people. Innovations emerge out of a complex process of multi-agent interaction and adaptation, as different agents learn and select improvements. The final chapter is a guide to launching a learning selection approach to understanding and catalysing technological change.
10 Douthwaite, B.; Alvarez, S.; Cook, S.; Davies, R.; George, Pamela; Howell, J.; Mackay, R.; Rubiano, J. 2007. Participatory impact pathways analysis: a practical application of program theory in research-for-development. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 22(2):127-159.
Food security ; Poverty ; Research projects ; Development projects ; Stakeholders ; Institutions ; Impact assessment ; Models ; Water productivity
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044703)
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The Challenge Program on Water and Food pursues food security and poverty alleviation through the efforts of some 50 researchfor-evelopment projects. These involve almost 200 organizations working in nine river basins around the world. An approach was developed to enhance the developmental impact of the program through better impact assessment, to provide a framework for monitoring and evaluation, to permit stakeholders to derive strategic and programmatic lessons for future initiatives, and to provide information that can be used to inform public awareness efforts. The approach makes explicit a project’s program theory by describing its impact pathways in terms of a logic model and network maps. A narrative combines the logic model and the network maps into a single explanatory account and adds to overall plausibility by explaining the steps in the logic model and the key risks and assumptions. Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis is based on concepts related to program theory drawn from the fi elds of evaluation, organizational learning, and social network analysis.
11 Victor, Michael; Douthwaite, B.; Schuetz, T.; Harding, A.; Harrington, Larry W.; Cofie, Olufunke. 2014. Harnessing research for development to tackle wicked problems. In Harrington, Larry W.; Fisher, M. J. (Eds.). Water scarcity, livelihoods and food security: research and innovation for development. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.45-76. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management)
Research projects ; Development ; Models ; Policy ; Stakeholders ; Partnerships ; Gender ; Capacity building ; Knowledge management ; Communication
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 HAR, e-copy SF Record No: H046680)
12 Douthwaite, B.; Apgar, J. M.; Schwarz, A.; McDougall, C.; Attwood, S.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Clayton, T. 2015. Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Penang, Malaysia: CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. 96p. (CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems Working Paper: AAS-2015-16)
Development theory ; Agricultural research ; Less favoured areas ; Partnerships ; Gender ; Equity ; Women's participation ; Men ; Households ; Aquatic environment ; Ownership ; Community involvement ; Stakeholders ; Empowerment ; Floodplains ; Reclaimed land ; Farmers ; Fish culture ; Participatory approaches ; Social aspects ; Ecology ; Resource management ; Capacity building ; Case studies / Zambia / Bangladesh / Solomon Islands / Philippines / Cambodia / Barotse / Malaita / Visayas-Mindanao / Tonle Sap
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047452)
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13 Hiwasaki, L.; Culas, C.; Minh, T. T.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Douthwaite, B.; Elias, M.; Kawarazuka, N.; McDougall, C.; Pannier, E. 2016. Guidelines to engage with marginalized ethnic minorities in agricultural research for development in the Greater Mekong. Hanoi, Vietnam: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program. 30p.
Agricultural research ; Agricultural sector ; Research and development ; Ethnic groups ; Minority groups ; Guidelines ; Gender ; Equity ; Households ; Decision making ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Cultural behaviour ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Eroded soils ; Erosion ; Sustainable agriculture ; On-farm research ; Domestic gardens ; Participatory approaches ; Stakeholders ; Case studies / Southeast Asia / Cambodia / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Myanmar / Thailand / Vietnam / China / Greater Mekong Subregion / Bolikhamxay Province / Yunnan Province / Kon Tum Province / Yen Bai Province / Houay Dou Catchment / Dien Bien Province / Gulmi Districts / Rupandehi Districts
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047890)
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14 Douthwaite, B.; Apgar, J. M.; Schwarz, A.-M.; Attwood, S.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Clayton, T. 2017. A new professionalism for agricultural research for development. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 15(3):238-252. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2017.1314754]
Agricultural research ; Research and development ; Professionalism ; Research organizations ; CGIAR ; Research programmes ; Aquatic environment ; Agricultural systems ; Participatory approaches ; Community involvement ; Partnerships ; Stakeholders ; Scientists ; Farmers ; Capacity building ; Gender equity ; Green revolution ; Case studies ; Monitoring ; Evaluation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048130)
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There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s. At the centre of these calls is a recognition that for agricultural research to support the capacities required to face global patterns of change and their implications on rural livelihoods, requires a more systemic, learning focused and reflexive practice that bridges epistemologies and methodologies. In this paper, we share learning from efforts to mainstream such an approach through a large, multi-partner CGIAR research program working in aquatic agricultural systems. We reflect on four years of implementing research in development (RinD), the program’s approach to the new professionalism. We highlight successes and challenges and describe the key characteristics that define the approach. We conclude it is possible to build a program on a broader approach that embraces multidisciplinarity and engages with stakeholders in social-ecological systems. Our experience also suggests caution is required to ensure there is the time, space and appropriate evaluation methodologies in place to appreciate outcomes different to those to which conventional agricultural research aspires.
15 Douthwaite, B.; Hoffecker, E. 2017. Towards a complexity-aware theory of change for participatory research programs working within agricultural innovation systems. Agricultural Systems, 155:88-102. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.04.002]
Agricultural research ; Participatory research ; Research programmes ; Agricultural innovation systems ; International organizations ; CGIAR ; Aquatic environment ; Agricultural systems ; Fisheries ; Stakeholders ; Scientists ; Farmers ; Evaluation ; Empowerment ; Case studies ; Plant fibres ; Abaca ; Models / Zambia / Philippines
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048508)
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Agricultural innovation systems (AIS) are increasingly recognized as complex adaptive systems in which interventions cannot be expected to create predictable, linear impacts. Nevertheless, the logic models and theory of change (ToC) used by standard-setting international agricultural research agencies and donors assume that agricultural research will create impact through a predictable linear adoption pathway which largely ignores the complexity dynamics of AIS, and which misses important alternate pathways through which agricultural research can improve system performance and generate sustainable development impact. Despite a growing body of literature calling for more dynamic, flexible and “complexity-aware” approaches to monitoring and evaluation, few concrete examples exist of ToC that takes complexity dynamics within AIS into account, or provide guidance on how such theories could be developed. This paper addresses this gap by presenting an example of how an empirically-grounded, complexity-aware ToC can be developed and what such a model might look like in the context of a particular type of program intervention. Two detailed case studies are presented from an agricultural research program which was explicitly seeking to work in a “complexity-aware” way within aquatic agricultural systems in Zambia and the Philippines. Through an analysis of the outcomes of these interventions, the pathways through which they began to produce impacts, and the causal factors at play, we derive a “complexity-aware” ToC to model how the cases worked. This middle-range model, as well as an overarching model that we derive from it, offer an alternate narrative of how development change can be produced in agricultural systems, one which aligns with insights from complexity science and which, we argue, more closely represents the ways in which many research for development interventions work in practice. The nested ToC offers a starting point for asking a different set of evaluation and research questions which may be more relevant to participatory research efforts working from within a complexity-aware, agricultural innovation systems perspective.
16 Child, K.; Desta, G.; Douthwaite, B.; Haileslassie, Amare; van Rooyen, A.; Tamene, L.; Uhlenbrook, Stefan. 2021. Impact tracking: a practitioner-developed approach to scaling agricultural innovation in Ethiopia. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 28p. (WLE Legacy Series 1) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.226]
Agricultural innovation ; Scaling ; Impact assessment ; Agricultural research for development ; Project evaluation ; Policies ; Research programmes ; Funding ; Partnerships ; Community involvement ; Watershed management ; Irrigation equipment ; Taxes ; Landscape ; Data management ; Stakeholders ; Collaboration ; Case studies ; Innovation scaling / Ethiopia / Yewol Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050789)
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This paper argues for more creativity and flexibility in agricultural research for development (AR4D) scaling and impact evaluation in complex contexts. While acknowledging the importance of setting reasonable end-of-project targets and outcomes, we argue that the achievement of outcomes and impacts, particularly in complex contexts, requires adaptive management and acknowledgment that significant positive outcomes and impacts may occur after the project funding cycle is complete. The paper presents a practitioner-developed approach to scaling AR4D innovations called Impact Tracking (IT). We illustrate IT in practice by presenting three case studies from Ethiopia in which IT proved crucial to achieving impact. The paper concludes by drawing lessons from the case studies and discussing what implications IT may have for development practitioners.
17 Douthwaite, B.; Child, K. 2021. How agricultural research for development achieves developmental outcomes: learning lessons to inform One CGIAR science and technology policy research. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 27p. (WLE Legacy Series 2) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2022.201]
Agricultural research for development ; CGIAR ; Research programmes ; Impact assessment ; Monitoring and evaluation ; Agricultural innovation ; Technology ; Policy innovation ; Agronomy ; Capacity development ; Advisory services ; Soil quality ; Cassava ; Seed certification ; Fertilizers ; Phytosanitary measures ; Solar energy ; Irrigation systems ; Electricity supplies ; Donors ; Funding ; State intervention ; Farmers ; Databases ; Models ; Case studies / Ethiopia / India / United Republic of Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050909)
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At the end of 2021, CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) will be replaced by Initiatives housed within One CGIAR. This new modality is intended to achieve higher levels of impact at a faster rate and at reduced cost compared to the CRPs. As One CGIAR begins, there is a unique opportunity to reflect on what has worked in different contexts. In this paper, we provide findings that relate to One CGIAR’s overarching view of how it will achieve positive and measurable impacts, and for agricultural research for development (AR4D) more generally. Specifically, we draw from three related CRP evaluations to identify how different types of AR4D approaches have contributed to successful outcomes. In the final section of the paper, we present our conclusions and provide a list of recommendations for the science and technology policy of One CGIAR and possibly other integrated research for development programs.
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