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. 
30/03/2018

Assessing the levels of hunger and food insecurity is essential for alerting decision makers, ensuring accountability, and developing and monitoring policies aimed at addressing hunger. The “Voices of the Hungry” Project is an effort to develop a global Food and Nutrition Security indicator based on people’s own perceptions of hunger.

06/03/2018

This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the final evaluation of the project implemented by FAO and funded by the Japanese Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project was designed to improve the capacity of the Irrigation Department to formulate, implement, monitor and evaluate agriculture irrigation development projects.

28/02/2018

Over the past decade, the country of Haiti located in the Caribbean has been subjected to numerous natural disasters, including Hurricanes Isaac and Sandy in 2010. Implemented by FAO and funded by the LDF, this project sought to restore livelihoods, introduce climate-smart agriculture techniques and rehabilitate damaged land.

28/02/2018

The overall objective of the project was to “enhance the capacity of Mali’s agricultural sector to successfully cope with climate change, by incorporating climate change adaptation (CCA) concerns and strategies into ongoing agricultural development initiatives and mainstreaming CCA issues into agricultural policies and programming”.

20/02/2018

The purpose of the evaluation was to help orient FAO’s programme in Myanmar and to make it more relevant to the country’s needs and priorities. Moreover, the evaluation sought to identify lessons learned and make recommendations that will be useful for FAO’s future engagement in the country and the design of the next FAO Myanmar Country Programming Framework (CPF).

15/02/2018

This report presents the findings of the Final Evaluation of the six year GEF-FAO project implemented between 2012 and 2017. The project’s global environmental objective was to strengthen biodiversity conservation and reduce forest and land degradation’ and the development objective was ‘to enhance the sustainable livelihoods of local communities living in and around protected areas.

04/01/2018

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGTs) provide principles and best practices for governance of tenure. Since their adoption in 2012, FAO has implemented various projects to support the VGGTs being applied to improve governance of tenure.

29/12/2017

FAO’s programme in Bangladesh is one of the largest among member countries in terms of number and volume of projects. In consultation with the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and the FAO Country Office in Bangladesh, OED conducted an evaluation of the Bangladesh country programme to provide input into the preparation of the next CPF.

29/12/2017

FAO’s Country Programme Evaluation in Cameroon assessed the strategic positioning of the Organization in the country and its contributions to the priority areas agreed with the Government of Cameroon for the period 2013-2017 (as identified in the Country Programming Framework).The period covered by the evaluation was characterized by an increased...

22/12/2017

FAO’s evaluation in Honduras aimed at assessing the level of achievement of the results planned between 2013 and 2016, taking into account how it has contributed to changing the capacities of national institutions and the conditions of development of the beneficiary groups where the projects were located. In particular, the...