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Building Impact and Partnerships

in Africa

Developing Theories of Change

#impactafrica

Projects

1. Unravelling biofuel impacts on ecosystem services,

human wellbeing and poverty alleviation in Sub-

Saharan Africa

2. Exploring the ecosystem limits to poverty alleviation

in African forest-agriculture landscapes –

(ECOLIMITS)

3. Alternative Carbon Investments in Ecosystems for

Poverty Alleviation (ALTER)

4. Coastal Ecosystem Services in East Africa (CESEA)

5. Sustainable poverty alleviation from coastal

ecosystem services (SPACES)

Group work

• Break up into your respective projects and

appoint a rapporteur who will report back

in the plenary.

• In this session we would like each group to

discuss their impact strategies and map

out your theory of change, answering

some of the questions in the note provided

Key Questions

• Key partners: who the project is or will be

seeking to work with to enhance research

uptake, use or impact.

• Communication – in what format, to whom,

how?

• The broader context- drivers of change,

governance and institutions

• Opportunities for scaling up?

• Transition strategy – planning for the end of

the project