How and why are Theory of Change and Realist Evaluation used in food security contexts? A scoping review

S Lam, W Dodd, S Wyngaarden, K Skinner… - Evaluation and Program …, 2021 - Elsevier
The complex ways in which food security actions lead to nutrition and other health outcomes
make it important to clarify what programs work and how, with theory-driven evaluation …

[HTML][HTML] Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based

PK Thornton, T Schuetz, W Förch, L Cramer, D Abreu… - Agricultural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Agricultural research for development has made important contributions to poverty reduction
and food security over the last 40 years. Nevertheless, it is likely that both the speed of …

Towards appropriate mainstreaming of “Theory of Change” approaches into agricultural research for development: Challenges and opportunities

YT Maru, A Sparrow, JRA Butler, O Banerjee, R Ison… - Agricultural …, 2018 - Elsevier
Food insecurity persists in many parts of Africa and Asia, despite ongoing agricultural
research for development (AR4D) interventions. This is resulting in a growing demand for …

Applying a “theory of change” process to facilitate transdisciplinary sustainability education

D Armitage, J Arends, NL Barlow, A Closs, GA Cloutis… - Ecology and …, 2019 - JSTOR
Transdisciplinary sustainability training is a recognized need in many graduate programs.
However, there is limited analysis of specific pedagogical tools to support this effort …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of digital transformation on fisheries policy and sustainability: Lessons from Timor-Leste

A Tilley, RD Lam, DL Lazo, JDR Lopes… - … Science & Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Digital technologies are transforming how we monitor and manage natural resources, by
speeding up data-driven decision-making. Still, to date, there is scant evidence of their …

Getting beneath the surface in program planning, monitoring and evaluation: Learning from use of participatory action research and theory of change in the CGIAR …

JM Apgar, W Allen, J Albert, B Douthwaite… - Action …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Many rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems
that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions across agents, scale …

[PDF][PDF] Pathway to impact: supporting and evaluating enabling environments for research for development

T Schuetz, W Förch, P Thornton… - … climate change action for …, 2017 - library.oapen.org
The chapter presents a research for development program's shift from a Logframe Approach
to an outcome and results-based management oriented Monitoring, Evaluation and …

To scale, or not to scale–that is not the only question: rethinking the idea and practice of scaling innovations for development and progress

S Wigboldus - 2018 - search.proquest.com
This thesis presents the case for the need to approach processes of scaling innovations for
the purpose of achieving development and progress more critically than is commonly done …

Wissenstransfer innovativ weiterdenken

T Michaelis, B Wolf, F Hermann… - Workshop im Rahmen der …, 2019 - orgprints.org
Wissenstransfer ist für den Einsatz und die Anwendung von Forschungsergebnisssen in der
Praxis des ökologischen Landbaus unerlässlich. Neue Impulse lassen sich ableiten, wenn …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS)

R Birner, R Bhujel, EM Rathgeber… - CGIAR Independent …, 2015 - iaes.cgiar.org
There are four important considerations that informed the evaluation team's approach to its
task. First, a significant challenge was the evolving nature of the AAS and the changing …