Strengthening Community Resilience to Change through Combining Local Innovation Capacity with Scientific Research (CLIC-SR) - Final External Evaluation Report

This evaluation report discusses the findings, conclusions and recommendations on the project “Strengthening Community Resilience to Change: Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research (CLIC-SR)” under the umbrella of the network Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and NRM (PROLINNOVA). This project was implemented in four Eastern African countries, namely Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It was implemented by the Country Platform (CP) partners with coordination in the hands of one lead partner under the guidance of their respective National Steering Committees (NCSs). At international level, the project is governed by the PROLINNOVA Oversight Group (POG), managed and coordinated by the PROLINNOVA International Secretariat (IS) – hosted until June 2015 by ETC Foundation and thereafter by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in The Netherlands – with monitoring and evaluation (M&E) support from the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) – a member of the International Support Team (IST) - and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation (US$775,000). The project started in September 2012 and was originally scheduled to end in August 2015 but received a no-cost budget extension of one year, to August 2016. The evaluation took place within a period of three months and was completed and reported on in May 2016, three months before the end of the project. The findings of the evaluation were presented and discussed on 15 May 2016 in Senegal with all four CP partners.