Other evaluations

3ie supports formative or process evaluations to help determine if an impact evaluation will be feasible or to inform its design. We are making selected ones available through our publication database. Please visit our programme pages to find complete lists of formative or process evaluations that may have been done for a given programme.

Latest Other evaluations

Other evaluations

Project Mesha: transforming the lives of rural women through productivity improvements

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
To inform the implementation of Project Mesha, a goat-farming intervention aimed at marginal and landless households, Aga Khan Foundation commissioned 3ie to conduct a formative study. The authors of this report look into the relevance, feasibility, context and evaluability of the project planned for Muzzafarpur District, Bihar.

Evaluating the Women’s Advancement in Rural Development and Agriculture programme

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
This process evaluation assesses the implementation fidelity of the Women’s Advancement in Rural Development and Agriculture programme, that works to economically empower smallholder women farmers and increase their agricultural income through market-led interventions in the districts of Purnea and Muzaffarpur, Bihar. The evaluation identifies enabling factors or implementation challenges that affect the programmes potential for sustainability and scale up.

Conservation Agriculture Evaluation Project in Northern Ghana: a formative evaluation using a framed field experiment

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
This formative evaluation investigates whether adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) techniques by farmers can be increased through well-designed incentives and information about their peer’s experience with adopting CA.

Assessment of community-based crop micro insurance for climate-related risks offered to smallholder farmers and marginalised communities in India

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this process evaluation report assess the factors that affect the demand for agriculture insurance offered to smallholder farmers by community-based mutual-aid schemes and how effective is the crop insurance component of CBMAS in providing financial protection to insured farmers.

Assessment of agriculture insurance linked to contract farming and government input subsidy scheme in Zambia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this study explore the feasibility and acceptability of training, outreach and marketing strategies for a combined insurance package of weather index-based insurance products, for cotton farmers in Zambia.

Understanding the potential of crop insurance in India: a study of the Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this process evaluation report explores the feasibility and acceptability of using crop insurance by various stakeholders, analysing their experiences and roles during the implementation process of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, in the state of Karnataka, India.

Evaluating the efficacy of an app-based livestock insurance scheme in Gujarat, India

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this formative evaluation report assess whether a mobile-app platform that digitises the in-field enrolment process and claims process for livestock insurance, combined with awareness programmes like cooperative society engagements and door-to-door marketing, can improve livestock insurance penetration and uptake.

Bundling weather index insurance and credit in Senegal: contributors and constraints to take-up

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this formative evaluation report look at various bundled products that can increase weather index based insurance take-up in Senegal.

Formative evaluation on increasing the uptake of ACRE Hakika in Kenya

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this formative evaluation report look at factors behind an increase in uptake of a mobile-based agricultural insurance product, ACRE Hakika — that uses a rainfall-based index. This product can secure the livelihood and incomes of local farmers in Kenya by providing coverage from the effects of unpredictable weather.

Uptake and evaluation of innovative insurance embedded credit for promoting resilience and livelihoods for smallholder in Kenya

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report evaluate the impacts of implementing an innovative risk management solution, Risk-Contingent Credit for smallholder wheat and maize farmers in Kenya.