AgResults Evaluation Design: Nigeria Aflasafe Pilot - Final Report
Presents Abt鈥檚 evaluation design for the pilot in Nigeria outlining a randomized control trial to assess the impact of this pilot
Abstract
This report presents Abt鈥檚 evaluation design for the AgResults pilot in Nigeria, outlining a randomized control trial to assess the impact of this pilot, which provides incentives to smallholder maize aggregators to increase the adoption of Aflasafe, a technology which reduces aflatoxin contamination of maize by up to 99%. The pilot is designed to demonstrate a successful model for increasing smallholder adoption of biocontrol technology in Nigeria by reducing barriers to the widespread adoption of Aflasafe through a perunit premium payment for maize verified to contain a high prevalence of Aflasafe. The evaluation was redesigned in a memorandum on January 19, 2017, to propose a quasi-experimental design for evaluation of the pilot and an analysis that will help the evaluators understand the 鈥渞each鈥� of AgResults and its potential for being taken to scale.
Citation
Abt Associates, 鈥淎gResults Evaluation Design: Nigeria Aflasafe Pilot,鈥� Prepared by Abt Associates and Denise Mainville Consulting, Bethesda, Maryland, December 2014.
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