Assessing the Organizational Impact of Development Cooperation

A Case from Agricultural R&D

Authors

  • Douglas Horton International Service for National Agricultural Research The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Ronald Mackay Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.13.001

Abstract

This paper reports on an evaluation of the organizational impacts of the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), a non-profit agency with a mandate to strengthen national agricultural research organizations and systems. For the purposes of this study, “organizational impacts” are defined as the effects of ISNAR’s activities and outputs on the external environment, organizational motivation, and capacity of client organizations. The article outlines the context and objectives of the evaluation and the conceptual framework developed for it. A set of component evaluation studies, data collection and analysis procedures and some salient findings are described. Overall results are contrasted with the initial evaluation objectives.

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Published

1998-09-01

How to Cite

Horton, D., & Mackay, R. (1998). Assessing the Organizational Impact of Development Cooperation: A Case from Agricultural R&D. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 13(2), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.13.001

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (1998): Fall

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Copyright (c) 1998 Douglas Horton, Ronald Mackay

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