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Submitted Abstracts Files
Have
you been working with some interesting and innovative teams
that have been effective in achieving a better understanding
of how agricultural innovations, coupled with linkages between
research and policy communities and scientific understanding
of human-environment systems, can have more impact on poverty
reduction and social inclusion, while protecting the environment?
If
so, we would like you to consider joining us (see organizing
committee below) at a 3 day workshop: Rethinking Impact:
Capturing the Complexity of Poverty and Change, March
26-28, 2008 at the Headquarters of the International Center
for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia.
Objective
The objective of the workshop is to draw from the experiences
of professionals from multiple disciplines of natural and
social sciences regarding evaluation of research aimed at
poverty reduction, social inclusion and sustainable development.
We are particularly interested in new methods and metrics
that have been developed and tested in ongoing evaluations
and impact assessment efforts supporting learning.
Workshop
attendance
Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted papers
(in the first instance). Papers will be considered that arise
from ongoing or published work and address any of the following
three general themes.
Workshop
themes
1. Practical case studies with lessons learned in relation
to, or that provide empirical evidence of, reductions in poverty,
and analysis of how that impact was achieved, with a focus
on one or more of the following:
- System
dynamics
- Roles
of different players
- Innovation
and markets
- Research-to-development
processes
- Learning
processes as they affect performance.
2.
Impact assessment and evaluation approaches that address issues
such as:
- Assessing
contributions in complex partnerships
- Interdisciplinary
research
- Combining
quantitative and qualitative data
- Linking
the contribution of processes to outcomes and impact
- Innovation
systems analysis, and new metrics for understanding and
measuring outcomes and impacts.
3.
Institutionalization of new approaches for research management
and impact assessment:
- Communication
challenges
- Training
and capacity development for poverty-oriented research and
impact assessment
- Policy
and operational environments (including institutional culture).
How
to apply
Please send abstracts to Claudia Garcia at the PRGA Coordination
Office (prga@cgiar.org)
by November 9, 2007. Submissions should include: corresponding
author(s)'s name(s), contact details and short biographical
details (50-100 words); key partners, and a brief abstract
(up to 700 words).
Notification
of papers selected will be made by end of December 2007. Travel
and accommodation costs will be paid for one presenter for
each selected paper.
Edited
proceedings of all the papers presented at the workshop will
be produced. Full versions of selected papers (20-25 double-spaced
pages; maximum 9000 words) should be submitted by end of February
2008.
We
intend to explore opportunities to publish some of the papers
as a special issue of an international peer-reviewed journal.
We would also welcome suggestions about additional topics
to include in the agenda and leading speakers who could be
invited to present keynote papers and serve as resource persons
to the workshop.
If
there is sufficient interest, a fourth day (March 29) might
be added for capacity development or action planning purposes.
For
more detailed information about the partners, drivers and
assumptions behind this workshop, please visit the workshop
website: www.prgaprogram.org/riw
We
look forward to hearing from you!
Organizing
committee:
Nancy Dickson, Co-Director, Sustainability Science
Program, Centre for International Development at Harvard University,
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci
Patti Kristjanson, Leader, Innovation Works: Linking
Knowledge with Action, International Livestock Research Institute
(ILRI), p.kristjanson@cgiar.org
Nina Lilja, Impact Assessment Economist, CGIAR Systemwide
Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program
for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA
Program), n.lilja@cgiar.org
Jamie Watts, Coordinator, Institutional Learning and
Change Initiative (ILAC) of the CGIAR, Bioversity International,
j.watts@cgiar.org
Workshop
Facilitator:
Keith Jones, Innovation Expedition
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