Learning System for Agricultural Research for Development (LESARD) Effective Documenting, Reporting and Analysis of AR4D with Multi-Stakeholder Processes

The capacity of existing monitoring and decision making tools in generating evidence about the performance of R4D with multi-stakeholder processes, such as innovation platforms (IPs), public private partnerships (PPP), participatory value chain management (PVCM) is very limited. Results of these tools are either contextual and qualitative such as case studies that can not be used by other R4D interventions or quantitative i.e. impact assessments that do not inform what works in R4D. LESARD combines qualitative and quantitative methods and provides integrated documentation, reporting and analysis tools for measuring the impact of AR4D with multi-stakeholder processes. LESARD provides insights about whom to target for achieving higher effectiveness and efficiency. LESARD generates evidence about the performance of AR4D with multi-stakeholder processes and the specific intervention that influence the performance, it produces high quality evidence that can be base of rigorous scientific analysis about the performance of AR4D. The study shows that the authors suggest that AR4D interventions with multi-stakeholder processes can improve their effectiveness and efficiency through LESARD.