Evaluation of FAO’s support to climate action (SDG 13) and the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change (2017)
The evaluation of FAO’s contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13), including an assessment of the implementation of FAO’s Strategy on Climate Change (2017), was carried out in 2020 and was both summative and formative.
The evaluation found that FAO has made relevant contributions to SDG 13, the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework by enhancing national capacities for adaptation and resilience to climate change, through knowledge products, tools, guidance and by mobilizing climate finance. Besides, FAO was key to inclusion of agriculture in global negotiations on climate change and instrumental in linking agriculture to National Adaptation Plans and National Determined Contributions. Nevertheless, FAO has not yet sufficiently mainstreamed its work on climate action and climate-related disasters into its programming and operations.
The evaluation recommends FAO to develop a corporate narrative on climate change and food systems, reflecting it in the new FAO Strategic Framework (2022–2031), guiding the new Climate Change Strategy and cascade it into all offices, divisions and levels.
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Case Studies
- 1. Sector level study in Agriculture
- 2. Sector level study in disaster risk reduction/management
- 3. Sector level study in fisheries and aquaculture
- 4. Sector level study in forestry and climate change with special focus on REDD+
- 5. Sector level study in gender and social inclusion
- 6. Sector level study in livestock
- 7. Executive Summary of the Final Evaluation of the project "Integrating Agriculture into National Adaptation Plans Programme (NAP-Ag)"
- 8. Assessment of FAO’s niche in the climate action space
- 9. Global Environment Facility study
Main Report
- Full report
- Annex 1. Terms of reference
- Annex 2. Synthesis of FAO climate change-related evaluations from the SDG perspective
- Annex 3. Assessment and interpretation of the Global Sustainable Development Report database subset availed to FAO
- Annex 4. Portfolio analysis
- Annex 5. Climate change policy markers analysis
- Annex 6. Global surveys