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Impact Study7. Design concrete follow-up measures together with theproject partners;8. Network and lobby for follow-up measures with institutionsable and willing to implement follow-up projects inapplied research and /or development;9. Increment the ZIL budget so as to earmark funds forimpact-oriented phasing-out and follow-up measures(e.g. with a new “seed money” equivalent budget line).Regarding the programme phase IV, the list of recommendationsstarts with point 6. This should include, as a first priority,a feedback of the project results to the stakeholdersinvolved during the research and a broad dissemination ofproject results (pamphlets, technical handbooks, workshops).Project Cycle Management and impact monitoring are synchronised processes.PerspectivesThe opportunities for ZIL to extend the positive impact of itsresearch programme beyond the duration of the single projectsare numerous and thrilling.Possessing solid foundations for generating impact out of itscapital (the research projects, the research teams, the managementteam and the tools already in place) and hopefullymaking use of some of the above-listed suggestions, ZIL canat first elaborate an impact-generating strategy and see to itsfinancing, then put the strategy in place and thus demonstrateby good practice that development-oriented researchhas a positive impact on the livelihoods of the people it ismeant to benefit.Sabine Hahn-Fornet21