1. Indo-Gangetic Basin Impact Pathways Workshop 30 June - 2 July, 2006 Himalaya Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal Boru Douthwaite and Cristina de Leon CPWF-BFP Impact Assessment Project

2. Goal –To contribute to the CPWF fulfilling its impact potential –To contribute to the CPWF being perceived as a “coherent, problem-focused research program” Purpose –CPWF scientists and management are using IA products and methods Intervention –Carry out “exemplary” impact analysis Impact pathways; impact narratives; impact pathway evaluation; scenario analysis; extrapolation domain analysis –Develop methodology

3. Impact Pathways 1.A visual description of the causal chain of events and outcomes that link outputs to the goal (logic model); and 2.Network maps that show the evolving relationships necessary to achieve the goal Implementing organizations; boundary partners; beneficiaries Shows the project rationale; its logic Shows multiple pathways

4. Impact pathways – a more complete picture…. Logic models Network models

5. Impact Narrative Text description of the project impact pathway Describes the project or program’s rationale Quantified and substantiated by literature and subject to peer review May take several forms –Short brochure (200 words, 4-pager??) –Web-based

6. Why develop impact pathways and impact narratives? Show the project’s rationale –Help communicate what the project is doing More fundable –Help with planning –Provide a basis for evaluation Starting point for evaluation is a good model of what you think will happen Help to write better project proposals

7. Foundations Impact Pathways; Impact Narratives –Adaptation of concepts from Program Evaluation Renger and Titcomb (2002) – problem trees Chen (2005) – program theory Mayne (2004) - performance stories –Innovation histories Douthwaite and Ashby, 2005 –Social network analysis Cross and Parker, 2004

8. Workshop Road Map

9. Introductions and Expectations

10. Workshop Road Map

12. Exercise 1: Refining and presenting your Problem Trees Split into project groups Reconstruct the problem tree, writing one problem per card –Use one colour for problems the project will address –Use another for other problems Modify, and add as you see fit –But don’t go into too much detail Present the problem tree to plenary

13. Example of a Problem Tree

14. Turning a problem tree into an objective tree

16. Workshop Road Map

17. Some definitions Activity – what we’re doing inside the project –Plan improvements to water supply Outputs – our activities that other people make use of –Improved availability of clean drinking water Outcome – the result of the use of the output by the target group –Reduced child mortality rates in families with access to clean water

19. Scaling Out and Scaling Up Scaling up - an institutional expansion, from adopters and their grassroots organizations to policy makers, donors, development institutions Scaling out - spread of a project outputs (i.e., a new technology, a new strategy, etc.) from farmer to farmer, community to community, within the same stakeholder groups

20. Develop a vision of project success two years after the project ends Work in project groups Take 5 minutes to individually answer the question –You wake up 2 years after your project has ended. Your project has been a success and is well on its way to achieving its goal. Describe what this success looks like to a journalist: What is happening differently now? Who is doing what differently? What have been the changes in the lives of the people using the project outputs, and who they interact with? How are project outputs disseminating? What political support is nurturing this spread? How did that happen? Discuss and develop a common vision Keep it realistic

21. Example of a Vision

22. Develop a project timeline from when your project started until 2 years after it will end Build a timeline of activities, outputs and outcomes that you from the beginning of the project to achieving the vision It is a story of adoption of project outputs (scaling-out) and the political support that helps it along (scaling-up) Write activities, outputs and outcomes on separate cards, using colour-coding –Activities = yellow –Outputs = blue –Outcomes = green or grey Write the names of the actors responsible on each card Stick the cards on a timeline made from flip-chart paper stuck together, or enter on your computer.

23. Example of a Timeline

24. Example of a Timeline II

25. Timeline example III – Companion Modeling PN25 Literature review on participatory catchment modelling Design and implementation of models Synthesis on models On-the-job training of local resource managers Degree training Lessons from past experiments at key sites Data synthesis, institutional analysis and monitoring at study sites Now 2010 2008 Participatory workshops at key sites New methodologies for better communication and coordination mechanisms -Manuals, papers -PhD dissertations A knowledge base, based on indigenous and scientific knowledge, at each site Setup of local institutions Teaching modules Less free-riders, Less conflicts Some extentionists act more as facilitators rather than experts Training courses Locally organized

26. Workshop Road Map