Since April 2021, a series of activities have taken place as part of SPIA’s offer to provide advice to One CGIAR Initiative Design Teams (IDT) in the development of their impact assessment plans. These activities have included a webinar to frame the methods and metrics that SPIA would propose to different initiatives, virtual meetings with several IDTs to discuss their draft plans, developing guidance to support the preparation of impact assessment plans in initiatives, and other meetings with IA researchers and Global Science Directors to discuss SPIA strategies to implement its advice.
The seventh session of the SPIA webinar series provided an opportunity for the broad impact assessment community of practice in the CGIAR to participate in a discussion of this process and to identify additional strategies that could improve the advice on methods and metrics for impact assessment in One CGIAR.