Shining a Brighter Light on Adoption and Diffusion of CGIAR-Related Innovations in Ethiopia
Taking a Country-Level Approach to Documenting Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Ethiopia Shining a Brighter Light: Comprehensive Evide...
The State of the Literature on Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Intensification
The projected increases in global demand for agricultural products over the coming decades – for food, for livestock feed, and use in industry ...
Can Diffusion Strategies Adapted to the Characteristics of CGIAR Innovations Enhance and Sustain Uptake?
As part of its mandate to support learning-oriented impact assessment, SPIA is inviting teams of academic researchers and CGIAR researchers to su...
Building a Portfolio of Impact Studies for Accountability and Learning: Progress, Lessons, and Opportunities
As I hand over the SPIA Senior Manager role to Ricardo Labarta, it seems like a good time to provide an update to the broader CGIAR Impact A...
Message From SPIA Chair on Learning Impact Studies
Karen Macours, Chair, Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) gives a short video overview that looks at: What we know about impacts of ...
Meeting CGIAR Data Needs in Ethiopia: Report from a Stakeholder Consultation
One of SPIA’s core strategies is to improve the evidence base on adoption of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations. We do this by partnering w...
Vacancy Announcement: Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) Officer - CGIAR Advisory Services Shared Secretariat
The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) is recruiting a skilled Impact Assessment professional to serve as a SPIA Officer. This posi...
“Gold Standard” Measurement Approaches: Yes, but Even Gold Comes in Different Carats…
In the last decade, the validity of data collected through agricultural surveys administered in developing countries has been shaken up by new me...
Paola Mallia
Paris School of Economics
"Don’t Look for a Donkey in the Lake"
SPIA's first country consultation workshop (agenda and participant list here) in October 2019 was a key part of our strategy of working intensive...
Can Diffusion Strategies Adapted to the Characteristics of CGIAR Innovations Enhance and Sustain Uptake?
A call for cases for learning-oriented impact studies* Background and scope of the call The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) ...
New Window for Expressions of Interest for Impact Studies
Estimating the long-term, large-scale impacts of CGIAR research on development outcomes SPIA has re-opened the window for submissions of ...
Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Intensification - New SPIA Call for Expressions of Interest
SPIA is pleased to announce a call for Expressions of Interest for studies of "The environmental impacts of agricultural intensification". We hav...