Institutionalisation of Research Prioritsation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Research priority setting, monitoring and evaluation (PME) have recently been introduced as research management tools to efficiently allocate scarce research resources to alternative choices. With squeezing agricultural research resources, research managers explore procedures to allocate available resources to meet the unprecedented challenges of increasing demand for additional food, and ever rising degradation of natural resources. An efficient and well prioritised research resource allocation is reckoned to make maximum contribution in improving the welfare gains of the society. To better allocate limited research resources among alternative researchable areas, it is now recognised the need to institutionalise the process of PME..