Guidelines for innovation platforms: Facilitation, monitoring and evaluation.

This document provides guidelines for Innovation Platform (IP) facilitation and the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of IP processes and outcomes. Although it has been written for PROGEBE (project on ‘Sustainable management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock of West Africa) staff at the site, national and regional levels, it is believed to have wider relevance beyond this specific project and specifically applies to projects which have a similar structure. To facilitate the application of this document to other similar contexts, we interchangeably refer to PROGEBE in this document as ‘the project’ and ILRI as ‘the research partner’. The document starts with a brief description of the rationale for the establishment of IPs within the PROGEBE project.