Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentDoug Gollin - SPIA Chair,Professor of International Development, Univ. Oxford

SPIA

Doug GollinChair

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Karen MacoursActivity leader

Erwin BulteActivity leader

JV MeenakshiMember

Bob HerdtMember

Secretariat staff (L to R): James Stevenson, Lakshmi Krishnan, Ira Vater, Tim Kelley

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Frederic Kosmowski ILRI, Addis Ababa• Integrating questions / protocols into national surveys with Ethiopian Statistical Agency• Estimating crop residue cover on soils after harvest• Phenotypic protocol for sweet potato

John IlukorIITA, Malawi and Uganda• Phenotypic protocol vs farmer self-report vs DNA fingerprinting for cassava in Malawi and maize in Uganda • Integrating questions / protocols on CGIAR technologies into national surveys in both countries

Two SPIA Research Associates hosted by CGIAR and working with LSMS-ISA

Sources of SPIA comparative advantage

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Independence

System-level perspective

Expertise and experience

Which activities currently fit our comparative advantage?

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Methods development

Coordination of data collection e.g DIIVA

Impact evaluation (system-level / cross-cutting; independent)

Synthesis

Capacity-building

What questions and challenges you are currently wrestling with?

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Large-scale coordination of adoption / diffusion studies (DIIVA) and economic rates of return to research

What are we best known for?

What are we least known for?

Bright individual pixels vs bigger picture

Capacity-building / match-making / support to research design