International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organized a three days Training Workshop on ‘Monitoring and Evaluation Methods’ on 10-12 March 2014 in New Delhi, India. The workshop is part of an IFAD grant to IFPRI to partner in the Monitoring and Evaluation component of the ongoing projects in the region. The three day workshop is intended to be a collaborative affair between project directors, M & E leaders and M & E experts. As part of the workshop, detailed interaction will take place on the evaluation routines involving sampling, questionnaire development, data collection and management techniques and production of an evaluation report. The workshop is designed to better understand the M & E needs of various projects that are at different stages of implementation. Both the generic issues involved in M & E programs as well as project specific needs will be addressed in the workshop. The objective of the workshop is to come up with a work plan for M & E domains in the IFAD projects and determine the possibilities of collaboration between IFPRI and project leaders.

1. Impact surveys (level 3 of
RIMS)- From IFAD manual
Devesh Roy and IFPRI team

2. Examples of data gathered from outcome surveys:
Mark the qualitative nature of AOS
• Based on the 2010 India AOS, 24% households in the Jharkhand Tribal
Development Programme reported an increase in crop productivity, of which
85% attributed the increase to project activities.
• In OTELP, about 55% of households surveyed experienced increased
productivity, which seems to be the result of adopting technologies
promoted by the project, which 65% of households did.

3. Executing RIMS: Impact indicators (To be discussed in other sessions)
The anchor indicators:
• Household asset index
• Child malnutrition
• Female/ male literacy
• Access to safe water
• Access to improved sanitation
In addition other indicators support the above:
• Dwelling floor, type of cooking fuel, household assets (electricity, radio, television,
refrigerator, vehicles, locally adapted assets), farming tool, livestock ownership
• Food insecurity (intensity and spread of hungry seasons)

4. Executing RIMS: Understanding Anchor Indicators of Impact
Definition:
A short list of impact
indicators that are based on
objective, quantifiable and
comparable data
They are not intended to replace
qualitative information, but to
provide a base (anchor) around
which the qualitiative information
can complete the explanatory
framework.

5. Why Malnutrition?
+ Access to Food
(higher incomes)
FOOD
HEALTH
CARE
NUTRITION
STATUS
+ Food Availability
(increased production,
more diversified diet)
+ Environmental Health
(safe drinking water)
+ Access to Services (higher
incomes)
+ Women’s Empowerment
(female literacy) (community
development)

6. The measures of malnutrition
Chronic malnutrition/ stunting (height for age): most relevant
indicator of the overall well-being (or poverty) in community.
Acute malnutrition/ wasting (weight for height): usually associated
with temporary shocks
Underweight status (weight for age): used to monitor the status of
individual children, such as in growth promotion activities

7. Asset index: sources of indicators (Question of core and
complementary surveys – will come to it in impact surveys)
World Bank surveys,
UNICEF Multiple
Indicator Cluster
Surveys, Demographic
and Health Surveys
Floor material
Number of rooms
Drinking water
Toilet facility
Electricity, radio, television, refrigerator
Vehicle- bicycle, motorcycle, car
Cooking fuel
IFAD added question
groups for rural
agricultural context
Food security (length of hungry season)
Household involvement in cultivating
farmland
Household use of farming tools
Household ownership of livestock
Locally specific assets and adaptations can be
included and will be automatically included in
the analysis

8. Executing RIMS:
Assessment surveys
• Random sample survey
• Measure changes in asset
ownership
• Measure change in child
malnutrition
• Other impact indicators