Network Models of Development Projects

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Impact pathways a more complete picture ..
Logic models
Network models
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How change happens

• Improvements in poverty alleviation, food
  security and the state of natural resources
  result from dynamic, interactive, non-linear, and
  generally uncertain processes of innovation.
• EIARD, 2003

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How change happens
Orlikowski and Hofman, 1997
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What is a network?

• A network is a collection of people and / or
  things that are connected to each other by some
  kind of relationship.
• Many kinds of entities can be part of a network
  people, projects, organisations, documents,
  events, cities, countries, etc.
• And there are many kinds of relationships that
  can link such entities, involving transmission or
  exchange of information, money, goods, affection,
  influence, infection, etc.

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Airline network
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Road Network
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Simpson Family Network
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Advantages of network models

• Actor-oriented descriptions
• observable, understandable, verifiable
• Captures real-life complexity
• We are subject to multiple influences
• We influence many others
• And influence works both ways
• Multi-disciplinary experience with analysis of
  networks
• Sociology, political science, psychology,
  biology, physics, information technologies

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A network diagram
(organisations linked by a project)
Influence pathway actor relationship actor
relationship
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A network matrix
(existence and type of link, and summary rows and
columns)
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A plotted network diagram
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Todays tasks..

• Identify relevant actors relationships
• Develop network diagrams for
• Your project now
• Residual network 2 years after project has
  finished
• Identify key extension and political support
  linkages
• Discuss implications

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1. Identify actors relationships important for
your project now

• Actor types identified in other workshops
• International NGO national NGO local NGO
• Community-based organization (CBO)
• Farmers group
• University
• National agricultural research organization
  (NARO)
• National agricultural extension organization
• Advanced Research Institute (ARI)
• Network organization
• Other Govnt. Agency
• CG Centre
• Private Sector
• Religious organizations
• Local Govnt. Organizations
• Media
• CPWF (theme leader, basin coordinator, managing
  centre)
• Federations and associations
• Unregistered advocacy groups
• Donor

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• Identify the actors (Orgs and groups) that your
  project works with
• Avoid overlapping categories
• Split them
• Actors should have relatively specific geographic
  location
• Farmer groups in pilot sites in Isabela
  Province, rather than farmer groups in Northern
  Luzon

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Relationship Types

1. Administration/ Coor
2. Provision of funding
3. Provision of information
4. Provision of pilot sites
5. Provision of seed
6. Provision of inputs (specify)

• Research (generally bi-directional)
• Training / capacity building
• Outreach of project outputs (scaling out)
• Provision of / Lobbying for political support
  (scaling up)

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2. Develop network diagram

• Actors
• Use shape, size colour and labels to describe
  who is involved
• Relationships
• Use thickness colour to describe kinds
• Use arrows to describe direction
• Dont use distance/length

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Also construct a network matrix
(relationship is of row to column actor)
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Map from the matrix
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And .. List of actors
Acronym Full name Location Org. type Partner type
IRRI Int. Rice Research Institute Los Baños, Philippines CG Centre Imple-mentor
MOFA Ministry of Fisheries and Agric. Accra, Ghana Govnt. Org. Boundary partner
FGs Farmers Groups Northern Ghana Farmer Org Ultimate beneficiary