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This review was commissioned to evaluate European Commission (EC) contributions to the CGIAR Research Programme (CRP) on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in 2013-2015. EC contributions were €2.5 million per year, which represented around 3% of the total budget of the CCAFS du...

I work as a Local Entrepreneurship and Institutional Development Consultant in the IFAD-sponsored Improved Seeds for Farmers Programme (KUBK-ISFP) in Nepal. Together with my colleague, Krishna Prasad Paudel, we joined the CTA-run training on experience capitalization in Goa, India. This has been ...

My job is to make sure that we learn from what we already know. It sounds easy, but it's not as straightforward as one thinks.

In 2017 I was invited to participate in an experience capitalization workshop organised by CTA in Kigali. I had no clue what experience capitalization was about, and what I could gain from it. When I arrived in Kigali, I found out that I was not the only one.

My first introduction to the experience capitalization approach came out as a blessing; I was in dire need of a concrete, or at least, more structured system to guide my documentation process. When I started on the exercises in the workshop organised by CTA in Goa, I had been writing several case...

Natural disasters are a permanent feature in Vanuatu. Consequently, efforts to improve the resilience of farmers to natural disasters was seen as a priority by Live & Learn Vanuatu. Knowledge hub committees were put in place to help communities to improve their farming techniques. This knowledge ...

Experience Capitalization is a relatively new term, but it covers similar principles to documentation or process evaluation. For me, Experience Capitalization is the HOW: in terms of “how are we doing things,” “how did we get to where we wanted to get,” and of “how did some aspects of a project w...

A participatory monitoring and evaluation process was successfully applied as part of the Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project, CHARM2. This is a special project implemented by the Philippines Department of Agriculture and is the second phase of the 1998-2004 CHARM1...

The Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development (WARECOD) is a non-governmental organisation working to promote the sustainable use of Vietnam’s water resources. Its goal is to improve the livelihoods of river-dependent communities, encourage the sustainable use of the rivers and expo...

Since the start of its socialist-oriented market economy programme 25 years ago, the Vietnamese economy has made outstanding progress. Socioeconomic planning activities, and monitoring and evaluation at various levels, have been especially important components, organised as part of a “Socio-Econo...