Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture. Title: Making sense of M+E for CSA in Action Speaker: Andy Jarvis

1. Making sense of M+E
for CSA in Action
Osana Bonilla, Andy Jarvis and many
others, CCAFS

2. Indicator Overload

3. • Provide common framework to guide for agriculturally focused
programs/donors on the design of CSA interventions
• Provide a robust and transparent process to examine to which extent a specific
program addresses the three CSA pillars
• Support the selection of appropriate indicators to measure progress and
monitor impact
The CSA
programming
and Indicator
Tool
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/csa-programming-and-
indicator-tool

4. Key findings
• Database of over 378 CSA-related
indicators (FAO, DFID, GIZ, IFAD-
ASAP, World Bank, USAID);
Contribution to each CSA Pillar
identified
• Indicators for: Adaptation (81%),
Productivity (40%); significant lack
of indicators relating to mitigation
outcomes.
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5. Multilevel framework to monitor CSA
outcomes in the field
Paper in prep.
Set of 44 standard indicators (10 Core) and
rapid and reliable ICT-based data collection
instrument to systematically assess and monitor:
CSA Adoption
(community level) CSA effects on Food
security and livelihoods
(household level)
CSA effects on
Farm performance
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6. Community and Household level
• Indicators on specific CSA implementation and CIS access
• 10 core outcome indicators to track perceived effects of CSA adoption at hh level
Productivity/ Food security Adaptation/ Resilience Gender
Production Climate vulnerability Labor
Agricultural income Access/control over resources
Food access Level of participation in
decision making
Food diversity Participation in decision
making on adopting CSA
Participation in decision
making on dis-adopting CSA

7. Household level
• Additional range of complementary descriptive indicators associated with
drivers, enabling and constraining factors.
Shocks Food security Adaptation/ Resilience
Frequency of events affecting
agricultural income
Food source share Changes in agricultural income source share (on/off-farm)
Frequency of climate-related
events affecting agricultural
income
Fulfillment of basis needs Absorptive capacities
- Coping strategies
- Financial enablers:
• Saving capacity
• On-farm investment capacities (gral and with climate
intention)
• Access to credit (gral and with climate intention)
• Access to ag. insurance (gral and with climate intention
• Access to financial servicers from buyers/providers
HH food Insecurity Access
Score (HFIAS)
Adaptive capacities
- Risk Mitigation actions
• Autonomous and climate induced
• Effects of climate induced changes on adaptive capacity
- Knowledge and learning:
• CSA awareness
• Capacity to use CIS
• Trainings (CSA, CIS, value chains)
HH food Insecurity Access
Prevalence (HFIAP)
Transformative capacities
- Autonomous and climate induced transformative capacities In
response to climate shocks

8. Farm level indicators
Pillar Indicador Metrics
Productivity
Caloric ratio of the farm (%) Caloric supply/Caloric demand x 100
Fodder ratio of the farm (%) Fodder supply/Fodder demand x 100
Cost benefit ratio (%) Benefit/Cost x 100
Adaptation
Biodiversity index (%) Based on Gobbi, J., Casasola, F., 2003.
Water balance (%) Water supply/water demand x 100
Nutrient balance (%) Nutrient supply/nutrient demand x 100
Mitigation Emission/Sequestration of CO2 CoolFarmTool
• 7 indicators to assess CSA performance, synergies and trade-offs
Prospective assessment of Synergies and tradeoffs
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9. Updated Smart App
 Questionnaires tailored and calibration done to
CSA calculator modules to allow a more generic
assessment of farming systems (across 9 sites)
CSA options
Climate Shocks
Climate Services
Livelihood security and
Financial services
Food security
Farm Calculator
Animal Calculator
Crop Calculator
Registration
Demographic
New integration in
the App

10. Regional trainings and
implementation
* CSA Calculator sampling (farm level)
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11. Online access
User friendly platform presenting Household level descriptive data and standard indicators
structured around 7 thematic sections: General demographics; Livelihoods; Financial
services; Food security; Climate related events; Climatic services and CSA practices