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Summary Report: Innovative Qualitative Approaches for CIS Monitoring and Evaluation

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Title Summary Report: Innovative Qualitative Approaches for CIS Monitoring and Evaluation
 
Creator Carr, Edward R.
Onzere, Sheila N.
Goble, Rob
 
Subject monitoring
evaluation
agriculture
climate
climate information
climate services
food security
 
Description Climate information services (CIS) for agriculture and development are useful only when farmers
have the ability to make changes in their activities and practices based on the information received.
This ability is mediated by a wide range of factors and considerations, such as access to appropriate
seeds or needed agricultural equipment, or the authority to make decisions about the cultivation of a
particular farm plot. Different users of a CIS will have different abilities to act on weather and
climate information, and therefore effective CIS design begins with the empirical identification of
potential CIS users and their climate information needs as shaped by these mediating factors. At the
same time, user expectations of CIS, environmental conditions, and the social and economic factors
that shape the utilization of weather and climate information can change during the implementation
of a project. To effectively monitor and evaluate CIS therefore requires approaches to monitoring
and evaluation (M&E) that identify and analyze these complex factors.
This report outlines lessons about CIS monitoring and evaluation drawn from two qualitative pilot
assessments of CIS users and their needs in Senegal (Carr et al. 2018) and Rwanda (Onzere et al.
2018). These assessments were conducted by the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab
(HURDL) as part of the Climate Information Services Research Initiative (CISRI) funded by the
U.S. Agency for International Development.
The goal of these assessments was to test innovative evaluation methodologies on ongoing
programs to develop general lessons that could contribute toward improving the design and
evaluation of CIS interventions. Specifically, HURDL tested the utility of the Livelihoods as
Intimate Government (LIG) approach (described below) as a means of identifying different users
and the factors that shape their different weather and climate information needs, for the Multidisciplinary Working Group (MWG) model in Senegal and the Climate Services for Agriculture
Initiative (CSAI) in Rwanda.
A growing literature demonstrates that understanding who the potential users of these CIS are, and
their needs for weather and climate information, allows for the design of monitoring and evaluation
efforts that are aimed at likely impacts. Further, because the potential impacts of climate information
are never evenly distributed across a population, better understanding users and their information
needs, calibrates monitoring and evaluation to what a significant impact looks like in a particular
place or population.
 
Date 2019-10-09
2021-03-01T13:34:26Z
2021-03-01T13:34:26Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Carr E, Onzere S, Goble R. 2019. Summary Report: Innovative Qualitative Approaches for CIS Monitoring and Evaluation. Report for the Climate Information Services Research Initiative (CISRI). Washington, DC: USAID.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111684
https://www.climatelinks.org/resources/summary-report-innovative-qualitative-approaches-cis-monitoring-and-evaluation
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access