Right Track Africa consultant Julius Nyangaga conducted an Impact assessment to analyze the impacts and outcomes the CCAFS project had achieved in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) seeks to promote a food–secure world
through the provision of science-based efforts that support sustainable agriculture and enhance livelihoods while adapting to climate change and conserving natural resources and environmental services.
Through the partnerships, CCAFS is integrating the thematic research on adaptation, risk management and mitigation), facilitating user-driven research and enhancing the science-policy dialogue, up-scale sharing of knowledge, tools and approaches. In 2012 through 2013 the regional program started the process of transitioning learning sites into “Climate Smart Villages” – where research partners and developing partners worked with farmers to test a portfolio of promising climate change adaptation, risk management, and mitigation interventions.
After 3 years of operation, the CCAFS East Africa Regional Program contracted Julius Nyangaga of Right Track Africa to undertake an internal impact assessment analyzing the impact the regional program has made and the outcomes achieved in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia during its operations since 2010. This assessment was to highlight the impacts the program has made in influencing behavior change, examine the use of the knowledge and data generated by CCAFS andalso provide recommendations for future activities. The term behavioural is broad, and refers to raised awareness, the acquisition and use of relevant knowledge and skills capacity, cultural and policy transformation in institutes and governance systems that would have the greatest effect on the target impacts. This means that the assignment sought to establish the extent to which these outcome results had taken place. And the sources of information were therefore representatives of such entities who were asked to explain such transformation. Or the challenges and gaps that still remain given CCAFS’ desired outcomes and any recommendations they could give to make progression more effective.