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2025 Evaluability Assessments: Everything You Need to Know

From Uganda to the Drawing Board: Listening, Learning and Shaping Evaluations

2025 Evaluability Assessments (EAs): Everything You Need to Know

As CGIAR launches its new research Portfolio for 2025–2030, ensuring that each program and accelerator is ready for robust, credible evaluation is more important than ever. That’s where the...

Estimating the Reach of Biofortified Crops to Farm Households: The HarvestPlus Model vs. National Sampling and Genotyping in Uganda

This technical note compares two different methods of estimating the reach of biofortified crops – namely, orange-fleshed sweet potato (OSP) and high-iron beans (HIB) – in rural Uganda. This is a...

Does An Innovation’s Reach Reveal Anything About Its Impact? Under The Right Conditions: Possibly

Impact—the extent to which a specific innovation causally affects a target outcome—is an ideal measure of a program’s success. However, impact evaluations are time- and resource-intensive, making them...

Understanding smallholders’ planting decisions: Firming Up Best Practices for DNA Fingerprinting in Varietal Adoption

Biofortified Crops and Costly ‘Monitoring Drift’ in Uganda

Strengthening Impact Assessments within CGIAR - IAFP Focal Point Meeting at AAEA 2025

CGIAR Science Group Evaluations: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

This sub-study was conducted under the umbrella of the independent evaluations of the three CGAR Science Group (SGs) ( Portal), in accordance with the evaluation Terms of Reference (ToR). A designated...

CGIAR Science Group Evaluations: Climate Change

The CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy identifies adaptation and mitigation as part of five Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-focused Impact Areas. The Strategy suggests how CGIAR’s research...

Terms of Reference: Review of Culture and Engagement in CGIAR

Under the System Council (SC)-endorsed Multi-Year Evaluation Plan (MYEP) ( 2025-27 Workplan for IAES (SC/M21/DP5)), the review of the 2020-27 Gender, Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) Action Plans and the...

Science in Bloom: ISDC Visits the James Hutton Institute in Scotland

Remote Sensing for impact evaluation of Agricultural Innovation: Insights from Ethiopia, Vietnam and Bangladesh

Partnerships: Evaluative Learning on Ways of Working in CGIAR

As CGIAR enters its 2025–2030 strategic portfolio, partnerships emerge as indispensable to addressing complex global challenges, including climate resilience, food system transformation, and equitable...

ISDC Review of 2025-2030 Research and Innovation Inception Reports

The Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) reviewed CGIAR’s Inception Reports for the 2025–2030 Science and Innovation Portfolio to assess whether the research environment is adequately...