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Understanding Impact Pathways

Understanding Impact Pathways. Jamie Watts, Victoria Henson-Apollonio and Joanna Kane-Potaka. Objective. To provide support to the planning process by: Clarifying what is an “impact pathway” and Emphasizing its importance as a planning tool Medium Term and Annual Work Plans

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Understanding Impact Pathways

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  1. Understanding Impact Pathways Jamie Watts, Victoria Henson-Apollonio and Joanna Kane-Potaka

  2. Objective • To provide support to the planning process by: • Clarifying what is an “impact pathway” and • Emphasizing its importance as a planning tool • Medium Term and Annual Work Plans • Global Public Goods • Marketing the products of our work • To refine our work and to better achieve our goals

  3. Structure of the Session 11:30 – 12:15 Presentation of background information, linked to an example, plus questions for clarification 12:15 – 12:45 Working groups to further explore the ideas presented 12:45 – 13:00 Discussion of lessons, comments and linking to the rest of the planning week

  4. What is an impact pathway? • A planning tool to help articulate how activities lead to impacts • The “Pathway” from… • Tasks and Activities (the work we do) leading to… • Milestones/Output Targets (annual deliverables) leading to… • Outputs (the products we produce such as improved germplasm, publications, capacity building, improved practices, policy) that lead to… • Outcomes (external use, adoption or influence of the outputs) leading eventually to… • Impacts (ultimate social, environmental and economic benefits)

  5. MTP Annual Work Plan APW

  6. Ultimate goal Impacts Outcomes Output

  7. Outputs Milestone/Output Target Activity Tasks

  8. Impact pathways for monitoring • An impact pathway can be used for monitoring progress and results… • Did we do what we said we would and what results were achieved? • Who needs to monitor what was achieved: • IPGRI Grant managers, Project Coordinators, Group and Programme Directors, Priorities and Strategies Committee etc. • Science Council • Donors, partners and others

  9. “Impact Pathway” analysis is not new to IPGRI • A logical framework approach • The research design process • we have impact pathways in our heads if not on paper… • what are we doing, why are we doing it, who will benefit, how to we overcome obstacles etc.

  10. Critical Thinking: • What are the hypotheses that form the basis of the work you are doing? • How would you know if you were successful? • What will constrain the accomplishment of the work and how will these constraints be overcome? • Who will benefit from or participate in the work? • What is the role of IPGRI in the process, and what is our “zone of influence”?

  11. Working Group Questions Move your chairs to form five groups Thinking of the example provided (improved bananas to improved livelihoods) discuss the following questions: • What are several key hypotheses behind the work? • What are the Global Public Goods that are likely to be developed through this work, and who are the users of these goods? • How would we make sure that the products we produce arrive into the hands of the people who are intended to use them, and that they would then actually make use of them?

  12. Closing Discussion • What lessons come out of the working groups? • How does this relate to “real world” experience? • How does this relate to the rest of the planning week?

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