This lesson will help you with follow-up to your priority-setting process.

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• This lesson will help you with follow-up to your
  priority-setting process.
• It will provide you with answers to two
  questions.
• How can we build consensus on the PITs that we
  have identified?
• How should we go about monitoring the
  implementation of programmes based on these PITs?

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• Dr. Carama begins to sum up the results of the
  meeting.

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and Rural Development
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and Rural Development

• Dr. Carama has collected the three statements.

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• Cultural Practices
• New varieties, fertilizers, and agro-chemicals
  require new cultural practices. Farmers who adopt
  these new technologies therefore need information
  on subjects such as planting times, spacing,
  water management, tillage, and rotations.

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• Crop Protection
• New pests, diseases, and weeds are constant
  threats to crop production. Farmers need
  continually updated information on subjects such
  as IPM and new agro-chemicals if they are to
  maintain food production, increase incomes, and
  protect the environment.

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• Post-Harvest Technologies
• Many farmers lose a significant portion of their
  production after harvesting. In order to minimize
  such losses, they need information on subjects
  such as warehousing, refrigeration, packaging,
  and transport.

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• Dr. Carama moves on to the last topic on his
  agenda.

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• One of the participants raises her hand.

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and Rural Development
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and Rural Development
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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• Here are examples of logframes showing expected
  results, filled in for three of our top PITs.

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and Rural Development
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and Rural Development
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and Rural Development
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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• INPUTS lead to ACTIVITIES lead to OUTPUTS lead to
  IMPACTS.
• The "logic model" asks us to be clear about these
  relationships as we plan our evaluation. What
  inputs in our PIT programme have led to what
  activities? What activities have led to what
  outputs? What outputs have led to what impacts?
• And then the "logic model" asks us four
  questions.
• Do we want to measure our inputs (for example,
  money spent)?
• Or do we want to measure our activities (for
  example, number of farmer field days)?
• Or do we want to measure our outputs (for
  example, number of publications)?
• Or do we want to measure our impacts (for
  example, whether or not farmers have really
  changed their cultural practices)?

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Priority Information Themes for ACP Agriculture
and Rural Development

• Here are examples of "logic models", filled in
  for the same three PITs that we used to
  illustrate the logframe.

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and Rural Development
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and Rural Development
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• What do you think is the single biggest strength
  of the "logic model" as a tool for evaluation?
  And what do you think is the biggest advantage of
  the "logical framework"?

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and Rural Development

• A logic model requires us to begin by looking at
  the entire project cycle - inputs, activities,
  outputs, and outcomes - and then to decide
  exactly what we want to measure.

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and Rural Development

• A logical framework assumes that we know what we
  want to measure - inputs, activities, outputs,
  and/or outcomes - and therefore asks us to focus
  on the precise indicators that we will use in our
  evaluation.

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and Rural Development
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• In this lesson, we have covered five topics
• Supporting statements (Screens 2-4)
• Monitoring and evaluation (Screens 5-7)
• The "Logical Framework (Screens 8-9)
• The "Logic Model (Screens 10-12)
• Wrap-Up (Screen 14)

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