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This article explores the critical importance of integrating Natural Resource Management (NRM) systems within CGIAR initiatives to address the needs of over a billion individuals living in poverty. It emphasizes the challenges and paradoxes faced in aligning commitments to NRM with existing critiques. By leveraging the Multi-Ecosystem Impact Assessment (MEIA) framework and fostering a learning culture, we can better understand and scale impact evaluation efforts. Additionally, it highlights the need for clearer collaboration amongst various CRPs and the importance of geographic synergies in enhancing evaluation methodologies.
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Welcome opportunity to interact • Recognize emphasis on NRM integrated systems in the SRF – relevance to the 1 billion poor • Paradox of commitment to NRMR in CGIAR vs criticism. Stripe papers lament this but we need a path forward • Not helpful to talk about NRM v commodities • MEIA as core of a learning culture, and ability to scale – not (just) a reporting requirement • Use of impact pathways thinking is pervasive • Confusion and overlap caused by splitting up M&E, IA and external evaluation arrangement • CRPs provide opportunity to address these issues. Strong commitment from our CRPs to get this right as we move ahead with implementation
Efforts to enhance the science of Impact Evaluation • Conceptual framework • Method selection and development • Use of lessons from impact evaluation • Collaboration around geographic synergies: B’desh, Mali-Burkina, Congo Basin, NW Uganda? • Community of practice – an emergent opportunity due to setting up of CRPs • Integration of this initiative into the CGIAR system, e.g., SPIA