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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Las Brujas.
Fecha corriente: | 11/07/2022
Fecha de la última actualización: | 11/07/2022
Autoria: | TURNER, J.A.; GUESMI, B.; GIL, J. M.; HEANUE, K.; SIERRA, M.; PERCY, H.; BORTAGARAY, I.; CHAMS, N.; MILNE, C.
Afiliación: | JAMES A TURNER, Farms Systems and Environment, AgResearch, 10 Bisley Rd, Hamilton 3214, New Zealand; BOUALI GUESMI, Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development (CREDA-UPC-IRTA). Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Edifici ESAB, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain; JOSÉ M. GIL, Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development (CREDA-UPC-IRTA). Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Edifici ESAB, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain; KEVIN HEANUE, Evaluation Unit, Teagasc, Mellows Campus, Athenry, Co. Galway H65 R718, Ireland; MIGUEL OSCAR SIERRA PEREIRO, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; HELEN PERCY, Adoption and Practice Change, AgResearch, 10 Bisley Rd, Hamilton 3214, New Zealand; ISABEL BORTAGARAY SABARROS, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; Instituto de Desarrollo Sostenible, Innovación e Inclusión Social - IDIIS, Universidad de la República, Uruguay; NOUR CHAMS, Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development (CREDA-UPC-IRTA). Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Edifici ESAB, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain; University Ramon Llull - IQS School of Management Via Augusta 390, 08017, Barcelona, Spain; CATH MILNE, Formerly SRUC, Peter Wilson Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK.
Título: | Evaluation capacity building in response to the agricultural research impact agenda: Emerging insights from Ireland, Catalonia (Spain), New Zealand, and Uruguay.
Año de publicación: | 2022
Fuente/Imprenta: | Evaluation and Program Planning, October 2022, Volume 94, 102127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102127
ISSN: | 0149-7189
DOI: | 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102127
Idioma: | Inglés

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Article history: Received 6 August 2021, Revised 27 April 2022, Accepted 25 June 2022, Available online 28 June 2022, Version of Record 6 July 2022.
Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: james.turner@agresearch.co.nz (J.A. Turner), bouali.guesmi@upc.edu (B. Guesmi), chema.gil@upc.edu (J.M. Gil), kevin.heanue@teagasc.ie
(K. Heanue), msierra@inia.org.uy (M. Sierra), helen.percy@agresearch.co.nz (H. Percy), isabelbortagaray@gmail.com (I. Bortagaray), nour.chams@upc.edu
(N. Chams), cemilne@live.com (C. Milne). -- This work was supported by the Strategic Partnership; Strategic Science Investment Fund, New Zealand; Scottish Government; Teagasc; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) in Uruguay; and the Societal Impact of R&D Investments [IRTA project-61095].

Contenido:

ABSTRACT.- Performance-based funding and calls for public-funded science to demonstrate societal impact are encouraging public research organisations to evaluate impact, the so-called impact agenda. This paper explores evaluation methods of four fully or partially public-funded agricultural research organisations and how they are building evaluative capacity to respond to the impact agenda. Drawing on cross-organisational comparison of the readiness of each organisation to implement evaluation, the implications for improving evaluative capacity building (ECB) are discussed. This study extends the current literature on ECB, as very little has focussed on research organisations in general, and particularly agricultural research. Driven by the impact agenda, the organisations are beginning to emphasise summative evaluation. Organisational leaders valuing the demonstration of impact and commitment to building evaluation capacity are important precursors to other aspects of organisational readiness to implement evaluation. However, organisational emphasis remains on using evaluation for accountability and to improve efficiency and allocation of funding. The organisations have yet to systematically embed evaluation processes and capabilities for learning at programme and organisation-levels. There is, therefore, an opportunity to develop organisation and programme-level evaluation processes that inform each other and the pathways to impact from science. To realise this opportunity, organisations could strengthen internal and external networks of evaluation practitioners and academics to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of monitoring and evaluation for learning (MEL) and to begin to reshape organisational culture by using evaluation methods that are grounded in co-production and integrated scientific and societal values. 
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Palabras-Clave: | Agricultural research impact; Building; Monitoring and evaluation, evaluation capacity.
Categoría del tema: | A50 Investigación agraria
Registro original: | INIA Las Brujas (LB)
Ejemplares: | LB - (103136-1) - PXI - AP - DD - Evaluation and Program Planning/2022 -  -  - DIS