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Rachel Zozo

Kenya

Rachel Zozo Member since 05/10/2021

International Institute for Tropical Agriculture

Monitoring and Evaluation Expert
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I am a seasoned ME&L professional with over 17 years of extensive and diverse work experience in the agricultural research for development sector, leading complex program Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning workstreams. I hold an MPhil Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation methods from Stellenbosch University. I also hold a Master's Certificate from IDEA International and Laval University. I am a certified M&E and Impact Evaluation professional from the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO). 

I am passionate about writing my fieldwork stories in the form of blogs to share my experience with readers and external audiences. 

My contributions

  • Blog

    Utilizing the Theory of Change as a Powerful Tool for Evaluation

    According to Leeuw & Donaldson (2015), various evaluation theories have emerged over the years and have transformed the evaluation discipline in one way or another. Having a defined evaluation approach is instrumental in fully comprehending the intricacies of the evaluation world. One way to understand complex social problems is to use a Theory-based evaluation approach. INTRAC (2017c) states, "A theory-based evaluation is usually based on an explicit Theory of Change (ToC) or Logic Model (LM) that explains the theory of a development intervention or a set of interventions." As I started...
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  • Blog

    The Effectiveness of Multi-stakeholder Platforms Towards Building of a Knowledge Delivery Infrastructure: Lessons from TAAT Implementation Framework

    The premise of TAAT is that agricultural solutions developed by leading CGIAR institutions over the past five decades were not reaching farmers quickly enough and that, when deployed, they would often fail to achieve similar productivity levels as in the research centres, thereby failing to result in the anticipated developmental outcomes. TAAT brings together a collaborative network of research institutions and centres of excellence involving CGIAR and other partners engaged with relevant scaling and development organizations. This collaboration ensures that proven technologies are...
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