Through a new project, the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) will partner with the Agricultural Development Team (AgDev) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase the efficiency of, and maximize collective learning from AgDev’s evaluations of its investments.
The project entitled “Evaluating Inclusive Transformation in Agriculture” (EVITA), aims to develop a robust evaluation approach that will generate evidence of the impacts of AgDev’s investments. EPAR will provide technical assistance and tracking systems to systematically collect data from the evaluation process and evaluation findings. Specifically, evidence generated from these evaluations will provide new, primary information that can deepen knowledge on how and why impact may or may not be reached, where there are new opportunities or risks, what results are sustained over time, and where strategic shifts or intensifying existing efforts is required, thereby enhancing overall evidenced-based decision-making for agricultural development.