Evidence of Impact and Reach from the SPIA 2019-2024 Workplan

While the approval of the SPIA 2019-2024 workplan by System Council 7 implied a strong recognition of the importance of measuring outcomes and impacts of CGIAR, the closure of this 6-year workplan in 2024 is bringing a variety of insights and relevant learning that aims to inform various decision-making processes among different CGIAR stakeholders. SPIA is in the process of disseminating the rigorous evidence generated through country-level studies measuring the reach of CGIAR-related innovations, and rigorous impact assessment studies generating causal estimates of CGIAR impact. Furthermore, SPIA aims to support CGIAR stakeholders in reflecting on the rigorous evidence coming out from its portfolio and encourage the use of this evidence for decision-making.

Although the current SPIA workplan has also delivered on supporting CGIAR’s strong commitment to embed a culture of impact assessment into the System, the evidence shared below comes out of the careful measurement of reach of SPIA innovations (component 3 of the 2019-2024 workplan) and rigorous causal impact studies (component 2 of the 2019-2024 workplan) that are the foundation of the SPIA approach to impact assessment for CGIAR.

With the closing of this workplan, SPIA has gathered key insights from the evidence in 5 briefing documents. These documents integrate learnings from SPIA impact and reach evidence with external impact evidence and are available for download.