What Changed, and Why?
A quick check of how far your evidence goes, what to find out next and how, and which part of ASK ME to improve. It ends with an evaluation plan to print and use in the field.Look beyond activities. Numbers trained and materials handed out show what you did, not what changed. The question is whether farmers tried the solution, kept using it, and were better off.
Your previous answers were restored.
What are you evaluating? (optional)
1. Where is the program now?
Evaluate throughout, not just at the end. What you can find out depends on the stage.2. What do you know so far?
Answer from evidence you have, not from what you expect. “Don’t know” is a useful answer: it shows where to look next.3. Why? How did each part of ASK ME work?
Numbers tell you what happened. Feedback and observation explain why.How far your evidence goes
What to find out next
Start with these. Each has simple, low-cost ways to find out.Understand why
Look at the parts of ASK ME that did not clearly work, or that you are not sure about.Listen to
- Farmers who did not try it, or who stopped. They tell you most about what to change, and are easy to leave out.
- Farmers who kept using it: what made it work for them, and what did they adapt?
- Women and men, and poorer and better-off farmers, separately: results often differ.
- Extension workers, CAHWs, input suppliers and other intermediaries: what did farmers ask them?
- Partners and researchers: is what you saw consistent with what they see elsewhere?
