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Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry (‘ERA Agro-Forestry’): Improving access to agro-forestry areas - Midterm evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2710
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2710
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Road construction
- category:
- Sector
- comments:
- The Project itself will benefit from demonstrating the effects when it is evaluated. The other beneficiaries will be the managers of R4D who could adopt the approach and show the effects of that programme and policy makers (national and donor) who are better informed about the impacts of the investment. The ultimate beneficiaries will be rural people if there is more investment in rural roads as a consequence. Other beneficiaries are implementers of road rehabilitation projects in Timor-Leste and elsewhere.
- challenges:
- The challenges being addressed are the complexities of conducting formal impact studies and as a consequence the difficulties of communicating to policy makers and donors of the value of investment in rural roads.
- success:
- The positive is the value of providing the evidence for informing investment decisions in rural roads. In this specific case providing a way of collecting and using evidence which R4D could use to demonstrate the nature of its contribution to development.
- context:
- The context is that the Project is collecting evidence in a variety of forms on the impact of improved roads, some of it for C & V purposes and others such as baseline and endline community snapshots, traffic counts, case studies and surveys(see Good Practice element 4). While the evidence for conducting a formal impact assessment is not present there is scope for conducting a qualitative meta-analysis to assess the effects of improved access.
- description:
- There are lessons to learn from assessing the effects of improved access for the economic and socio-economic situation of rural people to demonstrate the value of investment in rural roads to policy makers.
- administrative_issues:
- The lesson if taken on board will be for the design of future projects in Timor-Leste and elsewhere to incorporate an accessible approach for assessing the effects of projects if formal impact assessment is not possible (also see Good Practice element 4).
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/224911
- location:
- country:
- East Timor
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry (‘ERA Agro-Forestry’): Improving access to agro-forestry areas - Midterm evaluation
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