In this context, during 2019-2020, the IFAD independent office of evaluation (IOE) conducted a corporate-level evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations between 2009 and 2019 ( link to the Evaluation report). This was a challenging task, not least because of the varying interpretation of what is an innovation. The evaluation applied mixed-methods. It analysed 508 loan projects, 240 large grants, and undertook case studies in 20 countries. A systems approach was applied leading to an analytical grid, which includes 4 components (macro domains) of the agri-food system and 12 subcomponents as...
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Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture