An external evaluation of the first three years of operations of the SANREM cooperative research support program 1992-1994

EXCERPT FROM The Sustainable and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP) is a USAID-supported program being implemented in half a dozen locatiosn around the gloabe by a group of US university, local university, national and international agricultural research organizations, and NGO staff members…USAID mandates that projects such as the SANREM CRSP have an External Evaluation Panel. In this case the Panel consists of Les Swindale, former Director General of ICRISAT, Susanna Hecht, Associate Professor in Development Studies at UCLA, Thurman Grove, Dean of International Agricultural Programs, The Rockefeller Foundation. The Terms of References for the External Evaluation Panel include three key issues: