Can we evaluate network brokerage initiatives using data that are byproducts of the network broking process?

Abigail Barr, Sophie Alvarez, Katherine Tehelen and Boru Douthwaite

No 2009-18, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: Increasingly, development projects list social capital development and network brokerage among their objectives. How do we quantitatively evaluate such initiatives? Best practice, diff-in-diff methods may be impossible or too costly. Here, we try using data that are byproducts of the network broking process to evealuate the Challenge Program for Water and Food along this dimension. We find that, in accordance with its objectives, the program is associated with bridging linkages between organizations in the water and food sectors and between CGIAR members and their counterparts in government and that, in the case of the former, the association may be causal.

Keywords: Food production; water; Project evaluation; organizational networks; network brokerage; dyadic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O33 Q16 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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