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Can we evaluate network brokerage initiatives using data that are byproducts of the network broking process?

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  • Abigail Barr
  • Sophie Alvarez
  • Katherine Tehelen
  • Boru Douthwaite

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Increasingly, development projects list social capital development and network brokerage among their objectives. How do we quantitatively evaluate such initiatives? Best practice, diff-in-diff methods may be impossible or too costly. Here, we try using data that are byproducts of the network broking process to evealuate the Challenge Program for Water and Food along this dimension. We find that, in accordance with its objectives, the program is associated with bridging linkages between organizations in the water and food sectors and between CGIAR members and their counterparts in government and that, in the case of the former, the association may be causal.

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  • Abigail Barr & Sophie Alvarez & Katherine Tehelen & Boru Douthwaite, 2009. "Can we evaluate network brokerage initiatives using data that are byproducts of the network broking process?," CSAE Working Paper Series 2009-18, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
  • Handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:2009-18
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    Keywords

    Food production; water; Project evaluation; organizational networks; network brokerage; dyadic analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water

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