Spillover study

This paper sets out the findings of a pilot study commissioned by COLEAD into the so-called ‘spill-over effects’ of their work over the past two decades to improve the export horticulture value chain in Kenya. ‘Spillovers’ are understood as being the unintended impacts of development interventions, be those positive or negative. As they are not the intended effects, they are neither looked for nor measured by standard project performance matrices. Some work has been done in the past on this topic, for example by the WTO’s Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). However, a systematic understanding of what these effects are and how they might be proactively integrated into future programming remains absent. The short study described in this paper was intended as a pilot to see what might be out there, as a precursor to a larger study in due course.