I’m Emile N. HOUNGBO (PhD), a Benin citizen, Agricultural Economist Engineer (1996), with a PhD of the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) in socio-economics, environment and sustainable development (2008). I’m an Associate Professor at the National University of Agriculture in Benin, where I’m charged of the courses of Rural Economics, Methodology of Scientific Research, Macroeconomics and Project Management. My main research areas are sustainable agriculture, rural socioeconomics, food security, natural resources management, poverty analysis, and climate change. I’m an expert in strategic planning, the development and monitoring-evaluation of agricultural projects and poverty analysis. I has been charged of the monitoring and evaluation of several projects, such as the Fruit Flies West African Project (FF Project, 2014-2016) and the Blast Project (Pyriculariose Project, 2012-2016) both funded by the West and Central Council for Agricultural research and Development (WECARD) and the Project of Local Interventions for Food Security (PILSA, 1997, 2018) funded by the Government of Benin Republic.
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How to define and identify lessons learned?
DiscussionNeutrality-impartiality-independence. At which stage of the evaluation is each concept important?
DiscussionHow can evaluation help improve data quality and policies on food security during Covid-19 pandemic?
DiscussionRecurring errors in public policies and major projects: contributions and solutions from evaluation
DiscussionFor this purpose, I analysed the process of primary data collection and the food security indicators produced in my country, Benin. As we all know, the quality of statistics depends on the accuracy of primary data, as primary data ultimately condition all subsequent analyses and policies. My research clearly showed some weaknesses in the official statistics. Based on a literature review of the periodic statistics published by the INSAE, the public structure in charge of national statistics in Benin, and on interviews with some data collection agents used for surveys carried out from 2011 to 2018, I found two main
Is this really an output? Addressing terminology differences between evaluators and project managers
DiscussionThe issues facing global agriculture
DiscussionDevelopmental evaluation
DiscussionGender and evaluation of food security
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Emile Nounagnon HOUNGBO
Agricultural Economist, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Agribusiness and Agricultural Policy National University of AgricultureDear Colleagues,
I believe that an innovation, program, or policy that has been well-developed, particularly following a theory of change approach, requires very little effort to scale up. Founded on a relevant problem or real constraint, and analyzed in a participatory manner, the resulting innovation, program, or policy quickly spreads in terms of adoption and social behavior change. The impact is easily visible and more readily expanded. The effort to scale up the innovation, program, or policy can be measured at three levels:
Thank you very much.