Project Impact Assessment: Can We Learn from IFAD?

1. Project Impact Assessment:Can We Learn from IFAD? Graham M. Walter15 October 2007

2. IFAD Policy for Evaluation • Assess results and impacts • Uses results-chain principles • Assess against IFAD Strategic Framework • Assess impact on IFAD’s goal to enable the rural poor to overcome their poverty - thereby contributing to attaining the MDGs.

3. 3 Dimensions of Project Evaluation • Project Performance : Relevance; Effectiveness; Efficiency • Project Impact : Rural poverty reduction impact (impact domains); Sustainability; Innovation, Replicability, Scaling-Up • IFAD and Partner Performance

4. Impact Domains • Physical Assets • Food Security • Environment and Resource Base • Human Assets • Social Capital and Empowerment • Agricultural Productivity • Institutions and Services • Financial Assets • Markets

5. MDGs 4, 5, and 6: Improving Health MDGs 2 and 3: Improving Education MDG1: Halving Extreme Poverty and Hunger MDG8: Global Partnerships MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability Impact Domains 1. Physical Assets 2. Food Security Impact Domain 3. Environment and Common Resource Base Potential Areas of Reporting: LDCs, Landlocked Countries, & Youth Employment. IFAD’s Goal: Enable the Rural Poor to Overcome Their Poverty Productive Assets and Technology: Improving Equitable Access to Productive Natural Resources and Technology Human and Social Assets: Strengthening the Capacities of the Rural Poor and Their Organizations Financial Assets and Markets: Increasing Access to Financial Services & Markets Impact Domains 4. Human Assets 5. Social Capital and Empowerment Impact Domains 6. Agriculture Productivity 7. Institutions/Services Impact Domains 8. Financial Assets 9. Markets Link Impact Domains to Higher Goals

6. Rating System

7. Rural Poverty Reduction Impacts

8. Rating Scale for Sustainability

9. Rating - Innovativeness, Replication, Scaling-up

10. Rating Scale for Overall Performance

11. Western Mindanao Community Initiatives Project Goal - increased subsistence, higher incomes, better standard of living and greater resilience of livelihood of up to 16,000 farm and fishing households in selected areas of Western Mindanao. Targeted upland areas, agrarian reform lowland areas, coastal areas, and indigenous peoples.The project area is in a conflict zone. Covered 80 barangays in twenty one municipalities in 4 provinces : Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Basilan. Four components: (i) Community and Institutional Development, (ii) Natural Resource Management, (iii) Small Enterprise Development and (iv) Project Implementation

12. Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project Goal to reduce poverty through agricultural productivity improvements and sustainable natural resource management Targeted indigenous communities in three provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in northern Luzon. Covered 82 barangays located in 16 municipalities within Abra, Benguet and Mountain Provinces. Ninety-two per cent of the target population belong to indigenous communities. Four components: (i) community mobilization and resource management; (ii) rural infrastructure development; (iii) agricultural support services; and (iv) project management and coordination.

15. Discussion