Round Two Submission Form

Best Practices & Innovations (BPI)

Initiative
Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods
I. Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods Topic Areas
Please check NO MORE THAN THREE main topic areas (non-italicized) best
suited to your best practice or innovation. You may select as many of
the sub-topic areas (italicized) as you feel are appropriate:
Access to financial services Natural resources management
Credit Biodiversity protection
Savings Land reclamation
Insurance Soil improvement/conservation
Access to markets Water management
Food quality and safety Watershed management
Access to market information Non-traditional forest products
Produce marketing/sales Partnership
Adaptation to climate change Pest and disease management
Agricultural policy/enabling Producer associations & cooperatives
environment
Agro-forestry Productivity
Extension services/farmer Access to production inputs (seeds,
training fertilizers, etc)
Fisheries and aquaculture Irrigation/access to water
Gender integration/women’s Agronomy
participation
Horticultural production Research
Staple crops Value chain development
Land tenure and titling Post-harvest storage
Livelihoods recovery (post- Post-harvest processing
conflict/disaster)
Livestock production Post-harvest transport
Nutrition Other:

II. Contact Information (who can be contacted for more information on

this practice or innovation?)
Name: Title:
Organization:
Address:
Tel: Email:
III. Basic Information on the Practice or Innovation
NOTE: Please omit reference to the name of the submitting organization
for all information provided in Sections III and IV. The Review
Committee will assess all submissions ‘blind’ – without organizational
names – to enhance the objectivity of the process.

Intervention submitted as a (choose one): Best Practice

Innovation

Title:

Location (please include all relevant information: regions, countries,

districts/provinces, cities, etc):

Start Date (mm/dd/yyyy): End Date (mm/dd/yyyy):

Scale (choose one):

Local/Community
Regional
State/Provincial/Sub-national
International
National

Target Population(s):

Number of Beneficiaries:

Partners:

Funders/Donors:

Total Funding:

Website:
IV. Questions
NOTE: Where possible, please support your answers to the following
questions by referencing the relevant supporting documents provided in
Section V below.

1. Background/Context
Please describe the main development issues or problems the
intervention was designed to address.

2. Goals & Objectives

Please provide a concise statement of the intervention’s goals and
objectives. Please explain the theory of change, causal model or
assumptions through which the main activities would result in
achievement of the objectives and goals. Make sure to describe how
the best practice or innovation area(s) you selected were appropriate
to achieving those results.

3. Key Activities
Please describe the intervention’s main activities and interventions.
Be sure to describe the specific technical approach for the topic
areas you selected in Section 1; e.g. if you implemented a value
chain intervention, describe the characteristics of your approach
that make it a potential best practice. If you identified an
intervention as an innovation, please describe how it differs from
and improves on established approaches to a specific challenge.

4. Effectiveness/Evidence of Success
Please provide specific evidence, including quantitative evidence if
appropriate, demonstrating the impact of the intervention in
improving food security, reducing poverty, increasing resilience,
and/or improving productivity (e.g. increase in crop yields, income
gains levels of child malnutrition, benefits to women or other
vulnerable groups, etc.). Make sure to clearly describe the results
of the intervention and how they were measured; e.g. who and how many
people benefited from the intervention, and what the specific
development gains were. Please provide evidence to support these
results (e.g. field visit reports, internal tracking & monitoring,
internal or external evaluations, etc.) either here or in Section V,
below.

5. Equitable Outcomes
Please describe how the intervention enabled the participation of
women and the specific benefits that resulted for them. Please
provide data showing the comparative benefits for men and women. If
the intervention focused primarily or exclusively on men, please
explain the rationale for doing so.
6. Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness
Please compare the specific development gains identified above (e.g.
increase in income, decrease in post-harvest loss, etc.) with the
costs of this intervention to establish the scale of returns on
program investments.

7. Sustainability
Please provide information describing the steps taken or mechanisms
put in place to promote the long-term social, financial and
environmental sustainability of the intervention. Please describe
the steps taken to ensure services or impacts will be sustained and
the role of local partners or the beneficiary community in continuing
to provide the intervention.

8. Challenges & Lessons Learned

Please describe the main challenges or obstacles you faced in this
activity and how they were addressed. What are the most important
lessons that a reader should take from this experience?

9. Enabling Factors & Recommendations

Please describe the factors that were critical to the success of the
intervention (e.g. policy enabling environment, staff skills,
community engagement, special technical approach, long-term funding,
etc.). What should others know about the key enabling factors for
this intervention before trying to replicate it elsewhere?

10. Replicability/Adaptability
Please identify the other settings in which this intervention been
successfully replicated or adapted. If it has been replicated,
please identify where, when and by whom.

V. Supporting Documents
Please attach or provide links to evaluation(s) and/or other relevant
documents that would provide supporting quantitative or descriptive
information about the impact of your intervention. Providing this
information will greatly facilitate and support the Selection
Committee’s assessment of this intervention. If possible, please
remove organizational names or other distinguishing information that
might identify your organization from these materials before attaching
them.

NOTE: The submission information from winning BPI submissions will be

posted on InterAction’s website to facilitate sharing of information
about successful approaches.

Thank you for your submission!