Evaluation at FAO

Completed evaluations

Evaluations in FAO assess projects, programmes and strategies to generate and provide evidence-based information that is credible, reliable and useful for decision-making processes. 
17/07/2019

Climate change patterns, extreme weather events, land degradation and soil erosion have had a negative impact on agricultural production and the livelihood assets of poor people in rural areas in El Salvador; moreover, the country’s main water resource, within the Dry Corridor of Central America, has been affected by increase...

17/07/2019

The Project ‘Building resilience and self-reliance of livestock keepers by improving control of FMD and other Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs)’ aimed at providing assistance at central, province, and community level, in strengthening food security through an improved on-farm livestock healthcare system.

16/07/2019

This evaluation was carried out in order to analyze the contributions made by FAO to the national development objectives of the Government of Mexico in the period 2013-18, based on the prioritized areas in the country programming framework. (Spanish only).

12/06/2019

The biennial programme evaluation report provides highlights of the FAO Office of Evaluation’s findings. During the 2017‒2018 biennium, FAO made further efforts to operationalize its strategic planning approach. Consequently, our thematic evaluations focused on FAO’s contributions to its Strategic Objectives.

29/05/2019

To preserve and make sustainable use of the Ilha Grande Bay (BIG) ecosystem and its terrestrial and marine biodiversity, the project aims to support the creation of an enabling environment, institutional arrangements and public support directed at two critical threats to the system: organic pollution from urban waste water and solid wastes associated with recreational marinas.

20/05/2019

This evaluation assessed strategic positioning of the first phase of the FAO-Turkey programme, its results and contributions, sustainability, as well as coherence and catalytic effects.

11/04/2019

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a set of standard protocols for the analysis of the food security situation in a country’s regions, based on available data (surveys, statistics, studies). The final evaluation of the IPC Global Strategic Programme (GSP, 2014-2018) focused mainly on the utilization and utility of the IPC (who is using it and for what?) and its institutionalization (ownership and sustainability of the IPC).

05/04/2019

Global Strategy is the largest-ever effort to improve agricultural and rural statistics in developing countries. The programme built the capacity of agricultural and rural statistics in Africa and Asia-Pacific through research, training and technical assistance. It exceeded the intended outputs of its research component; the training component benefitted many training...

29/03/2019

The independent evaluation of the second phase of EMPRES-RO programme was requested in 2017 by the member countries of the FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Western Region (CLCPRO, Commission FAO de lutte contre le Criquet pèlerin dans la Région occidentale). It concluded that the Programme contributed to the sustainability of locust management in the region.

07/03/2019

This evaluation appraises progress achieved on the implementation of the Strategy and Vision for FAO’s Work on Nutrition since it was adopted in 2012. FAO’s nutrition-sensitive work has grown significantly since the Strategy was promulgated, and has evolved towards more deliberate efforts to address all forms of malnutrition.