Abstract:
The evaluation assesses whether the Cultivate Africa Future Fund (CultiAF) is on track to meet expected immediate and intermediate outcomes. It takes a systems approach, looking at the quality of decision making, management of research, and ongoing performance, and evaluates research quality in terms of the IDRC Research Quality Plus (RQ+) Assessment Instrument (2016), which includes integrity, legitimacy, relevance and positioning for use. It also assesses cross-cutting themes of gender and environmental sustainability. CultiAF is a CAD $15 million competitive grant facility created in 2013 by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
