Impact Assessment of Decentralized Rainwater Harvesting on Agriculture: A Case Study of Farm Ponds in Semi-arid Areas of Rajasthan

Kumar, Rajeev; Sekar, I.; Punera, Bhoopesh; Yogi, Vikram; Bharadwaj, S D Rahul

doi:10.5958/2322-0430.2016.00003.2

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“…The participatory action of stakeholders and the learning processes in innovation brings better social outcomes [46,49]. This can be achieved by actively involving and winning the commitment of scientists and farmers, which then creates a community-oriented environment [46,51,59]. However, the reason why the adaptation of innovation-and of innovative solutions-has been slow is due to the difficulties of identifying the underlying cause of the problem and taking proper actions accordingly, while not forgetting the needs of stakeholders [9] and making needed changes throughout the process.…”

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Enhancing Rural Innovation and Sustainability Through Impact Assessment: A Review of Methods and Tools

2020

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Assessing impacts in innovation contexts/settings with the aim of fostering sustainability requires tackling complex issues. Literature shows that key sources of this complexity relate to the need to integrate the local context; identify the underlying problems; engage key stakeholders; and reflect on their feedback throughout the innovation process. A systematic literature review on innovation impact assessment reveals that social impacts have been the most studied, thus, where promising methods and tools were used. Nevertheless, there are many unresolved issues beyond assessing social impacts in innovation processes. Literature highlights that building on co-creating innovation processes that respond to stakeholders’ real needs and context, and adapting to changing circumstances by integrating timely feedback from stakeholders are two critical challenges calling for a systems thinking approach. This study proposes Developmental Evaluation (DE) as a systemic approach to evaluation which supports adaptive development in complex environments and that adds value by integrating continuous feedback from diverse stakeholders. As a non-prescriptive evaluation approach in terms of methods and tools, DE can provide meaningful guidance to use diverse methods and tools in furthering ongoing development and adaptation in innovation processes by linking the evaluation activities—impact assessment among them—with the DE principles that are situational, adaptive and continuously responsive.

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