Evaluation at FAO

Highlights
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Evaluating forests and forest livelihood projects
20/03/2024

Forests are not only home to millions of species but also play a critical role in sustaining the livelihoods of communities across the globe.

Event
Tech vs. Touch: Is innovation killing participation in African evaluation?
12/03/2024

The African Evaluation Association's (AfrEA) upcoming conference sparks a crucial debate: is the rise of technology in evaluation practice the "last...

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Key recommendations on FAO's work on gender
08/03/2024

Gender issues in agriculture and development are widespread and persistent, affecting both men and women in various ways.

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Dimitra clubs: community listeners’ clubs for the empowerment of women and men
07/03/2024

Dimitra clubs are rural groups of women, men and young people who organize on a voluntary basis to discuss development challenges and find solutions together.

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Evaluating projects for sustainable agri-food systems
22/02/2024

Agri-food systems are all the interconnected activities and actors involved in getting food from field to table. This encompasses everything from agricultural...

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EvalForward Community of Practice

EvalForward is a Community of Practice on evaluation for food security, agriculture and rural development.

Latest evaluations
Evaluation
Learning from evaluations of FAO’s work in Europe and Central Asia (2020–2023)
04/2024

This 2024 report for the ECA region follows on the syntheses completed in 2020 and 2022 and responds to the request of the Thirty-second Session of...

Evaluation
Evaluation of the project “FAO Syria Smallholder Support Programme for Agriculture Transformation”
03/2024

FAO has demonstrated approaches that can be replicated to support the transformation of agriculture in the Syrian Arab Republic to a decentralized and...

Evaluation
Terminal evaluation of the project “Pesticide Risk Reduction in Malawi”
03/2024

This evaluation highlights the economic, environmental and social risks and challenges associated with the use of chemical pesticides in the agricultural...

Evaluation
Évaluation du programme de partenariat du Réseau mondial contre les crises alimentaires - Investissement au Sahel
03/2024

L'adoption et l'institutionnalisation d'outils et d'approches développés par le programme dans le portefeuille de la FAO ont été importantes. GloNet...

Evaluation
Terminal evaluation of the project “AVACLIM: agroecology, ensuring food security and sustainable livelihoods while mitigating climate change and restoring land in dryland regions”
03/2024

The project was found to be entirely relevant and coherent with national and global priorities in the fields of agricultural development, food security,...

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Evaluation of the project “Improving global forest management through improved global forest information”
03/2024

The project has clear comparative advantages and occupies a unique global niche, but differences with other forest resource assessment processes need...