Abstract
SPIA’s mandate, as an advisory body for the CGIAR Council (formerly System Council), focuses on expanding and deepening evidence of CGIAR research results across its five impact areas while fostering a culture of impact assessment within CGIAR. This mandate is distinctive in that SPIA generates evidence of reach and impacts of CGIAR, which comprises a set of Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) centers and programs, that are themselves portfolios of research and development programs and projects (SPIA 2020). SPIA achieves its mandate through its workplan, which consists of three interrelated pillars: Country Studies; Causal Impact Studies, and Use of Evidence.
This document serves as a guiding strategy for the Use of Evidence (UoE) pillar, which was formally established with the approval of SPIA’s new workplan and operational model in May 2023.
Citation
Ramachandran, S. 2026. The SPIA Approach to Use of Evidence. Rome: CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service (IAES)
Author(s)
Ramachandran, S.
