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. 
31/03/2017

The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) project was established in 1994. This report presents the final evaluation of the project, covering the period from 2013 to 2016. The purpose of the evaluation was to inform the Project Working Group (PWG), the Project Task Force (PTF), donors and other stakeholders about the project’s achievements towards attaining the expected results, and the sustainability of these results.

09/01/2017

This evaluation assessed FAO’s contribution in the Kyrgyz Republic through each of the priority areas of work under the Country Programming Framework 2015–2017: food security and nutrition, sustainable management of natural resources, climate change and rural poverty reduction.

30/11/2016

The purpose of this evaluation was to analyse FAO’s assistance to the Government of South Africa and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). The evaluation highlights the results of each of the project components, as well as the causes for successes and failures, over the entire period of project implementation (2007-2016).

03/11/2016

In the FAO’s Reviewed Strategic Framework 2010-19, Strategic Objective 5 (SO5) was dedicated to “increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises”. This evaluation reviewed the conceptual and planning framework for SO5, FAO’s capacity to translate the framework into action, preliminary results achieved, and FAO’s global positioning in resilience....

02/11/2016

This evaluation reviewed the Theory of Change, logframe, progress of the project and identified design and implementation issues to be addressed to strengthen implementation. It found that the project is making good progress towards its objectives. Nutrition and food security are improving for participating farmers as their production and income...

01/11/2016

This cluster evaluation assessed the overall contribution of three interlinked projects related to food security and nutrition in Afghanistan. It found that the food security cluster has contributed to women’s empowerment through the formation of common interest groups for women, increased knowledge and skills in mushroom farming, and improved technology...

01/11/2016

This evaluation assessed progress in supporting the Government of Sierra Leone and its partners to promote the Right to Food and improve dietary quality through a smallholder commercialisation programme and district development plans.

05/10/2016

This mid-term evaluation examined activities of the Forest and Farm Facility programme in the 10 focus countries: Bolivia, Gambia, Guatemala, Kenya, Liberia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam and Zambia.

05/10/2016

This evaluation assessed the European Union funded Food Security Information System project in Kyrgyzstan. Using a variety of data collection and analysis methods, it puts forward recommendations to improve sustainability of the existing system and inform the development of future projects.

05/10/2016

This is an evaluation of FAO’s programme in South Sudan between December 2013 and December 2015. This is predominantly a learning-oriented evaluation, looking back at FAO’s work in the last two years in order to provide guidance for the future strategic direction of the programme. It also fulfils an accountability function.