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