Lesson learning
FAO draws on lessons learnt through consistent and timely evaluation of projects, programmes and strategies.
Evaluation aims to help the Organization:
- improve its relevance and effectiveness
- strengthen institutional learning
- provide performance accountability to stakeholders
Evaluations conducted in recent years include:
- response to crisis in Southern Africa and FAO post-conflict programme in Afghanistan 2006
- more effective response to desert locusts and their impact on food security, livelihoods and poverty
- Impact Assessment Study of FAO inputs trade fairs in Mozambique 2006
- Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES) Central Region 2005
