Impact assessment at ICRISAT

Impact Assessment at ICRISAT

Kizito Mazvimavi

Presentation to the ICRISAT’s Global Planning Meeting, 11 February, 2013, ICRISAT Patancheru, India

Introduction

• There is need to demonstrate a culture of Impact at ICRISAT

• Impact Assessment Office (IAO) guided by procedural guidelines and protocols on implementation of ex-post IA studies – Set One: with 9 studies (4 in Asia and 5 in SSA)

– Set Two: with 6 studies (4 in Asia and 2 in SSA)

• Completed 4 studies, 4 being implemented, and 7 to be implemented in 2013

• Coordinating: Measuring Returns to Research Investment at ICRISAT

• Expectations of the planning week

Ex post Impact Assessment

• Can only be effectively conducted many years after the completion of the research being assessed (when enough time has elapsed for adoption to take place)

– Need for data management during the course of the project – to establish baseline

• Impact Cycle will describe the linkages between Ex-Ante (priority setting) and Ex-Post Impact Assessment

The Impact Cycle Are we doing this?

Baseline study Constraints, opportunities, and possible

technological solutions identified

Ex post Impact Assessment

On-farm technology evaluation

Adoption studies

Ex ante Impact Assessment (Priority Setting)

Feedback

Feedback

Feedback

Technology Dissemination (Large-scale)

Technology Dissemination (Pilot-level)

Technology Development

Objectives of Ex-Post Impact Assessment

• To identify and measure quantitative and qualitative impacts of ICRISAT research projects

• To establish the contribution towards the six institutional outcomes of ICRISAT’s research strategy- i.e. self sufficiency, intensification, diversification, resilience, nutrition and health, capacity building and gender perspectives;

• To describe the plausible impact pathway; and

• To measure returns to project investments

Set 1 Studies under implementation 2011-12

Impact Assessment Studies CRP Focal Point Targeted

Study Period

IA2011 – 3: Impact of HPRC– Part B Dryland Cereals Ashok Kumar/SK

Gupta

Jan-Apr 2013

IA2011 –4: Impact of seed systems development in sub-Saharan Africa

Markets, Institutes and

Policies/ Grain Legumes/

Dryland Cereals

Farid Waliyar Nov 2012-

May 2013

IA2011-5: Impact of groundnut research in Malawi

Grain Legumes Moses Siambi/Patrick

Okori

Nov 2012 –

May 2013

IA2011-6: Impact of pigeonpea research in Tanzania

Grain Legumes Said Silim Oct 2012 –

Feb 2013

IA2011-7: Impact of improved chickpea varieties in India

Grain Legumes/Markets,

Institutes and Policies

Cynthia Bantilan Sep 2012 –

Jul 2013

IA2011-8: Impact of groundnut research in Nigeria

Grain Legumes Bonny Ntare Feb 2012 –

Feb 2013

IA2011-9: Impact of ICRISAT research and development for fertilizer micro-dosing in ESA and WCA

Resilient Dryland Systems Justice Nyamangara/

Gandah Mahamadou

Oct 2012 –

May 2013

Set 2 Impact Assessment Studies 2013

Studies Region CRP Focal Point Budget

Bilateral CRP

IA2013 – 1: Impacts of chickpea

improved research in Central Dry

Zone of Myanmar

Asia Grain

Legumes

Pooran Gaur

IA2013 –2: Impacts of Lucheba watershed work in China

Asia Resilient

Dryland

Systems

Suhas Wani

IA2013-3: Impact assessment of the Agri- Business Incubation (ABI) program at ICRISAT

Global Markets,

Institutions

and Policy

Kiran K. Sharma

IA2013-4: Impacts of sorghum research and development in Mali

WCA Dryland

Cereals

Eva Rattunde

IA2013-5: Impact assessment of sorghum variety development in central Tanzania

ESA Dryland

Cereals

Mary Mgonja

IA2014-6: Impact assessment of Village Level Studies in Asia

Asia Markets,

Institutions

and Policy

Cynthia Bantilan

Impact assessment of ICRISAT’s work in watersheds 1999 to 2010

Quantifying Impacts

• Quantitative Impacts

– Total soil conserved 658,920 mt valued at US$171,319

– Additional income per crop increase up to US$400/ha

– Milk production increased from 2.5 to 4.0lt/day/animal

– Total income per ha per annum is US$1,000

– Economic viability showed benefit/cost ratio of 2:1 and an internal rate of return of 27%.

– Returns to Investment in Watershed Management in Andhra Pradesh – US$608 million over 10 years

Impact assessment of ICRISAT’s work in watersheds 1999 to 2010

Part A – Institutional Level Impacts

Impact assessment of Hybrid Parents Research Consortium (HPRC).

ICRISAT-bred parent Hybrids developed by Private Sector and NARS

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Highlights of HPRC Impacts Part A

• Benefits to Private Sector and NARS – Utilization of ICRISAT-bred hybrid parents

– Technical data of HPRC trials are available to partners to select the best performing lines.

• Benefits to ICRISAT – Feedback on the performance of the parental lines

– Financial support through membership fee, and

– Test locations for evaluation of the parental lines.

• Benefits to farmers – Monetary incomes through cultivation of high yielding hybrids with

disease resistance,

– Access to dual purpose hybrids for both grain and good fodder, and

– Access to quality hybrid seeds in time for planting.

• Need for Improvement – Membership fee – need to reduce fees to attract more members

– HPRC should develop the ‘diversified seed parents with multiple disease/insect resistance’

Impact assessment of Pearl Millet Hybrid HHB 67 Improved on production

on North-West India

Documenting Impacts along the Impact Pathway

ICRISAT seed parent (843A) with marker

assisted downy mildew resisted

CCSHAU restorer parent (H77/833-2)

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Multiple inbred lines and downy mildew

resistant hybrid produced

Shorter incubation period – 9 years

Enhanced molecular breeding

Access to financial gains through finding

plant molecular research

Farmers adopt downy milder resistant and

high yield pearl millet hybrids

Farmers can afford high quality pearl

millet hybrids from the market

Farmers improve crop diversity as they

release part of their land to kharif

Employment generated for both

seed and grain farmers

Improved food security and

nutrition

More income for farmers

More resilient farming system

Improved gender equity as

they access employment in

seed production

Development of downy mildew resistant pearl millet hybrids

Capacity building at ICRISAT and NARS in molecular breeding

Reduced poverty

Research Inputs Research Outputs Research Outcome Development

Outcome Impacts

ICRISAT and NARS Public and private seed

companies Farmers and consumers

Impact Pathway for Pearl Millet Hybrids, HHB 67 and HHB 67 Improved

Presentation of Impact Results

• Impact assessment reports are shared with: – researchers

– research management,

– donors,

– policy makers, and

– the media.

• Some targeted audiences have limited time to read a highly technical report, and the IAO coordinates the reproduction of the impact results into impact briefs (-> ICRISAT Policy Briefs) – that are easy to read and would encourage communication

of impact results across different practitioners.

• IAO Website

Estimating Returns to Research Investments at ICRISAT

Need to demonstrate that resource allocation to research represents

good investment in the past 40 years

16+ Jewels of ICRISAT CRP Ex-Ante/Ex-Post Focal Point (s) Timeline

1. Community bases integrated watershed management

RDS Ex-post Suhas Wani December 2012 and

June 2013

2. Fertilizer Microdosing RDS Ex-Post J Nyamangara/Gandah M March 2013

3. Village Level Studies MIP Ex-Post Cynthia Bantilan/Uttam Deb June 2013

4. Aflatoxin Testing Kit GL Ex-Post Farid Waliyar/ E Monyo/M

Siambi/H Sudini

June 2013

5. Early maturing and Fusarium fungal wilt resistant chickpea

GL Ex-Post HD Upadhyaya February 2013

6. Fusarium wilt resistant pigeonpea GL Ex-Post Pooran Guar March 2013

7. Early maturing and Fusarium fungal wilt resistant chickpea

GL Ex-Post KB Saxena/Suresh Pande March 2013

8. Pigeonpea in ESA GL Ex-Post Said Silim/Ganga Rao/Alastair Orr February 2013

9. Pigeonpea Genome GL Ex-Ante Rajeev June 2013

10. Guinea-Race Sorghum Hybrids DC Ex-Post Eva Weltzien March 2013

11. Extra-Early/Downy Mildew Resistant Pearl Millet Hybrid

DC Ex-Post Rakesh K Srivastava February 2013

12. Sweet Sorghum DC Ex-Ante Belum Reddy March 2013

13. Genetic Resources in Food Security DC/GL Ex-Ante HD Upadhyaya June 2013

14. Hybrid Parents Research Consortium DC Ex-Post Ashok Kumar/SK Gupta March 2013

15. Open Access Repository DC/GL Ex-Ante M Madhan June 2013

16. Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa DC/GL/MIP Ex-Post Moses Siambi March 2013

Estimating Returns to Research Investment on 16+ ICRISAT Jewels