Submission Form

Best Practices & Innovations (BPI)

Initiative
Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods
I. Topic Areas
Please check the topic and sub-topic area(s) that your best practice or innovation fits
under:
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 training Access to production inputs (seeds,
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

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
What challenges or problems was the intervention designed to address? Why was
the intervention needed?

2. Goals & Objectives

What were the intervention’s goals and objectives? What was it meant to
accomplish?
3. Key Activities
Please describe the intervention’s main activities. What role did each partner play?
If applicable, how is the intervention innovative?

4. Effectiveness/Evidence of Success
What were the results of the intervention, and how were they measured? Who and
how many people benefited from the intervention? What evidence do you have to
support these results (e.g. field visit reports, internal tracking & monitoring,
internal or external evaluations, etc.)?

5. Equitable Outcomes
Describe how the intervention enabled the participation of and produced benefits
for women. Please provide data showing the comparative benefits for men and
women. If the intervention focused exclusively on men, please explain the
rationale for doing so.

6. Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness
How do the intervention’s relative costs compare to the outcomes achieved?
Please provide evidence to support your answer.

7. Sustainability
Is this intervention sustainable in the long-term, socially, financially and
environmentally? Please describe the steps the intervention took to ensure
services or impacts will be sustained over the long term, and the role of local
partners or the beneficiary community in continuing the intervention.

8. Challenges & Lessons Learned

What challenges or obstacles did you face and how were they addressed? What
are the most important lessons a reader should take from this practice?

9. Enabling Factors & Recommendations

What factors were critical to the success of the intervention? What should others
know about this intervention before replicating it elsewhere?

10. Replicability/Adaptability
Has this intervention been successfully replicated or adapted in another setting? If
so, where, when and by whom?

V. Supporting Documents
Please attach or provide links to evaluation(s) and/or other relevant documents that
would support your answers to the questions above and facilitate the Selection
Committee’s assessment of this intervention.

Thank you for your submission!