Practical challenges and strategies for randomised control trials in agricultural extension and other development programmes

Culbertson, Michael; McCole, Daniel; McNamara, Paul E.

doi:10.1080/19439342.2014.919339

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“…Stakeholder engagement is by far the factor most commonly quoted in blogs 7 and in the literature (see for example Sturdy et al, 2014, Culbertson et al, 2014, Briceno et al, 2011. Project implementers, funders and users should be involved from the design stage of an evaluation.…”

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Successful Impact Evaluations: Lessons from DFID and 3ie

Wood¹

2019

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This paper explores the factors associated with the success of impact evaluations, drawing on the experience of two major funders of impact evaluations: the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). We first define successful evaluations along three dimensions: reliability, relevance, and policy influence. Based on a review of the literature we build a conceptual framework including the main factors associated with success at the stages of design, implementation, and analysis of results. We review selected impact evaluations recently funded by 3ie and DFID, we identify successful ones and we discuss characteristics associated with success. We find that careful planning, research team skills and composition, and sample size of the study are key elements of success. We also discuss unsuccessful cases of impact evaluations and suggest some guidance with regards to discontinuing studies facing implementation problems. We conclude with some reflections to help researchers and funders concentrate resources and efforts where they are most needed for the success of impact evaluations

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Successful Impact Evaluations: Lessons from DFID and 3ie

Wood¹

2019

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A quantitative assessment of an outsourced agricultural extension service in the Umzimkhulu District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Lyne

Jonas

Ortmann

2017

The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

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Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries

Spielman¹,

Lecoutere

Makhija

et al. 2021

Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ.

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With new possibilities offered by information and communications technology (ICT), an abundance of products, services, and projects has emerged with the promise of revitalizing agricultural extension in developing countries. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that not all ICT-enabled extension approaches are equally effective in improving adoption, productivity, income, or welfare outcomes. In this review, we explore various conceptual and methodological threads in the literature on ICT-enabled extension in developing countries. We examine the role of multiple impact pathways, highlighting how ICTs influence behaviors and preferences, gender and intrahousehold dynamics, spillovers, and public worker incentives. We also explore the opportunities presented by ICT-enabled extension for increasing the methodological rigor with which extension outcomes are identified. These conceptual and methodological insights—coupled with empirical evidence from prior studies—offer direction for several lines of policy-relevant research on ICT-enabled extension. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 13 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Practical challenges and strategies for randomised control trials in agricultural extension and other development programmes

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Successful Impact Evaluations: Lessons from DFID and 3ie

Successful Impact Evaluations: Lessons from DFID and 3ie

A quantitative assessment of an outsourced agricultural extension service in the Umzimkhulu District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries

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