1. Africa RISING Evaluation Design Carlo Azzarri, Beliyou Haile, Cleo Roberts IFPRI Africa RISING M&E Meeting 13-14 November 2014, Arusha, Tanzania

2. Site stratification 2 CountryData layers EthiopiaElevation, rainfall, population, market access, livestock density, wheat producing, AGP woredas, Ghana & MaliPopulation, rainfall, elevation, market access, farming systems MalawiElevation, temperature-adjusted rainfall TanzaniaElevation and rainfall ZambiaRainfall and elevation (*SIMLEZA) …and ground-truthing with AR researchers

3. ( (B) Beneficiary households (NB) Non-beneficiary households (C) Control households Action sites Control sites Spillovers & site targeting Impact and site & household targeting Evaluation Design Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana : B+NB+C Mali: B+C Ethiopia : B+NB

4. AR action and control sites 4 CountryRegion [District]Number of sites EthiopiaAmhara, Oromia, Tigray, SNNP8 action GhanaUpper West [Wa Municipal, Wa West**, Nadowli**, Wa East*] Upper East [Kassena-Nankana, Bongo, Bawku, Talensi-Nabdam*] Northern [Savelugu**, Tolon, Mion, West Mamprus*] 25 action/25 control MaliBougouni, Yanfolila, Koutiala10 action/10 control Malawi[Dedza and Ntcheu]26 action/28 control † TanzaniaDodoma and Manyara [Babati, Kongwa, and Kiteto] 7 + 4 action/14 control

5. Household sample size for ARBES 5 CountryAR beneficiaries (B) Non-beneficiaries (NB) Control (C) Total Ethiopia 72 451 -523 Ghana472 + 150200 (25X8)500 (25X20) 1322 Mali350-350 (10X35)700 Malawi452200 (26X8*)560 (28X20)1212 Tanzania108 + 434105 (7X15)270 (18X15)917 Total19665051680 4674 B: Census (Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia) or random sample(Ghana, Mali ) NB & C: Random sampling 4434 completed interviews (~5% non-response) Community surveys in 150 communities

6. Some Africa RISING innovations 6 CountryTechnologies Malawi On-farm adaptive agronomic experimentation (WP1) Integration of climbing beans (WP2) Livestock intensification (WP3) Nutritional status improvement and diversification (WP4) Dissemination, impact and networking (WP5) Tanzania Assessment of biophysical production constraints (WP1) Improved food and feed crop varieties (WP2) Improved fodder species (WP3) Local fertilizer & technology complementarities (WP4) Evaluation of mycotoxin contamination (WP5) Postharvest nutrition technologies (WP6) Ethiopia Field crop varietal selection and management Land, soil, water management Integrated disease and pest management Tree-crop-livestock integration for improved biomass, nutrient, energy efficiency and carbon sequestration Monitoring and evaluating the impact of innovation platforms

7. 7 CountryTechnologies Ghana Intercropping, crop rotation and diversification, post-harvest loss reduction, ISFM (WP2) Biological control of Aflatoxins in maize and groundnut (WP3) Integration of vegetables into cereal-legume systems (WP4) Improving productivity of integrated crop-livestock systems (WP7) Land, soil, and water management (WP8) Mali Improvement of farm productivity and profitability (WP5) Natural resources management (WP9) Ghana & Mali R4D platforms (WP1) Intensifying livestock and poultry production (WP6) Improving household nutrition through agricultural and behavioral changes (WP10) Some Africa RISING innovations

8. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation africa-rising.net