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G77117 |
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MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20211006073200.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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970-648-076-5 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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MX-TxCIM |
| 072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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A50 |
| 072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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E14 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
338.91 |
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WAT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mackay, R. |
| Affiliation |
International conference on impacts of agricultural research and development: Why has impact assessment research not made more of a difference? |
| 110 0# - MAIN ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico DF (Mexico) |
| 111 2# - MAIN ENTRY--MEETING NAME |
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| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
International Conference on Impacts of Agricultural Research and Development |
| Location of meeting |
San José (Costa Rica) |
| Date of meeting |
4-7 Feb 2002 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Expanding the use of impact assessment and other evaluation research evidence |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Mexico, DF (Mexico) |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
CIMMYT : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2003 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
p. 62 |
| 340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM |
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Printed |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Abstract only |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The rationale behind impact assessments is the commonsense notion that the evidence from these will be used to bring about improvements in the policies and programs evaluated and thereby contribute to economic and social betterment. As it becomes evident that impact assessment research is making less than the desired difference to the alleviation of human distress, evaluation researchers seek to understand why, and what can be done about it. This paper addresses the difference/lack of difference made to social betterment (e.g. food sustainability, poverty reduction, and the sustainable environmental management) by impact assessment and by evaluation research more broadly. First, the paper examines the principal reasons why evidence from evaluation research is not more immediately and effectively used; then it explores some of the ways that practitioners in the international evaluation community are working to design and conduct evaluations that promote relevance, credibility, and the practical use of findings. The paper reviews the international evaluation community's current thinking about impact evaluation and other evaluation research. It also draws on the authors' direct experience conducting and promoting the use of evaluation in research and development organizations over the past 25 years. Evaluation is a powerful, emerging "transdiscipline". It is also a highly sensitive field of practice in that it is virtually never undertaken in a politically or ideologically neutral environment and seldom within a policy vacuum. However, it has been long acknowledged that its principal weakness is the relatively mild influence that evaluation evidence exerts on individuals, organizations, and the broader communities charged with decision making. Many explanations have been put forward for this, in addition to the fact that evaluation evidence is only one source of information used to influence policy and operations, others being the values, beliefs, preferences, prejudices, and needs of the decision makers and their constituencies. It is acknowledged that some evaluations are biased towards the perspective of a single stakeholder group, some fail to establish an evaluation team with credibility in content or methodology, some unjustifiably assume that the evaluation approach adopted is acceptable to the principle decision-makers. To address the lack of influence of evaluations, the different philosophies, perspectives, values and practices that make up the evaluation discipline have been subjected to close scrutiny. The purpose of this scrutiny is a better understanding of the construct "evaluation use" and the identification of practices that promote utilization. The paper reviews this work and makes practical suggestions as to what evaluators can do in order to "make more of a difference" to the policies and programs they address. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES |
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| Affiliation |
0310|R01CIMPU|AGRIS 0301|AL-Economics Program |
| 595 ## - COLLECTION |
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| Collection |
CIMMYT Publications Collection |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic development |
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AGROVOC |
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1089 |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic policies |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Environmental policies |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Food crops |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1994 |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Food policies |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1115 |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Poverty |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| Source of heading or term |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1215 |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Production economics |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social policies |
| 653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
CIMMYT |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Horton, D., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
960 |
| Personal name |
Watson, D.J. |
| Miscellaneous information |
Research & Partnership Program |
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INT3479 |
| Relator term |
ed. |
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| Koha item type |
Conference proceedings |