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Evaluation of the project "Cross-cutting: Targeted support for agricultural statistical innovation at FAO

Project code: MTF/GLO/707/BMG

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 72 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-137484-9

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Series number No. 01/2023

Synopsis (short abstract) The report presents the results of the final evaluation of the project “Cross-cutting: Targeted support for agricultural statistical innovation at FAO”. The project, active between the end of 2016 and November 2021 and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at improving effective evidence-based decision-making, policy uptake and influence, and SDG accountability through high-quality, open, accessible, interoperable, timely and more disaggregated agriculture, food security and investment data. The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the quality and relevance of the project design and the extent to which the project has achieved its intended results.

Annex 1. Terms of reference

Annex 2. Analysis of FIES implementation

Management response

Follow-up report

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FAO. 2023. Evaluation of the project "Cross-cutting: targeted support for agricultural statistical innovation at FAO". Project Evaluation Series, 01/2023. Rome.

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