Adinda Van Hemelrijck and Glowen Kyei-Mensah

Final Report on the participatory impact evalution of the Root and Tuber Improvement and and marketing Program (RTIMP). Pilot application of a Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach (PIALA)

This document presents the findings from the impact evaluation of the Root and Tuber Improvement and Marketing Program in Ghana. The evaluation was conducted by Participatory Development Associates (PDA) using a novel participatory impact assessment and learning approach (PIALA) developed with support from IFAD and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  PIALA aims to offer a different perspective on programme results: a systematic perspective of relative influence on changes that have impacted rural poverty, beyond the immediate effects of performance.

Design Paper for the impact evaluation of the Root and Tuber Improvement & Marketing Program (RTIMP)

This document, jointly authored by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Participatory Development Associates (PDA), lays out the design of the impact evaluation of the Root & Tuber Improvement and Marketing Program (RTIMP) in Ghana.  Aiming at improving rural poor people’s livelihoods in Ghana through the development of commodity chains for Roots and Tubers (R&T) supplied by smallholders, the RTIMP consisted of three main areas of work: a) linking of smallholders to old and new markets; b) enhancing smallholder R&T production; and c) enhancing smallhold