LESSONS LEARNED - Science for Agriculture and Rural Development in Low-income Countries - page 113

APPENDIX: STRUCTURE OF QUESTIONNAIRE

A) Project setting
1. What was the background and motivation of the project?
2. What was the institutional context (partners with which cooperated?)
B) Project objectives
1. What were the initial project objectives?
C) Project activities
1. Which activities were employed to meet the objectives?
D) General project outputs
1. What are the scientific contributions of the project (to RDSA methodology or more
general scientific contributions)?
2. What are policy-relevant findings of the project for Dutch and for Southern policy-
makers?
3. What are the outputs in terms of capacity-building and partnerships?
E) Tangible outputs, dissemination and impact
Can you describe for the (max. 10) key outputs of your project:
1. Type of output
2. Dissemination of output/results (examples of dissemination: papers + articles;
policy briefs; policy workshops; scientific conferences and workshops; website)
3. Have your results been used, and if yes by whom, where and how?
4. What has been the benefit or impact (indicate evidence of impact, e.g. page hit
count)?
F) Lessons learned
What lessons have you learned from science, policy-oriented and capacity building activities
that could improve:
1. Future research on Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture

2. The role of research in generating policy-relevant information in support of LNV

and other policy institutions

3. Partnerships and development efforts in the South

4. Interactions between research and decision makers, both in The Netherlands and the

South

and:

5. Which insights were gained by employing a multi-disciplinary methodology that
would have been missed by disciplinary research?
G) Unfinished business and future challenges
6. Which important things remain to be done that could not be achieved by the
project?
7. Which important challenges in the area of RDSA in the tropics are there in the near
future (say 5 to 10 years)?
8. What type of research could contribute to addressing these challenges?
H) For completed projects
1. What has happened since your DLO-IC project was completed?
2. Are there follow-up proposals developed and to whom are they submitted?
I) Additional information/remarks etc.
Please feel free to share with us any additional information, ideas and suggestions for the
topic.