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OED Evaluation Manual
Guidance for all stages evaluations from initiation, budget, design, data collection, drafting and finalizing the report.
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Charter for the FAO Office of Evaluation
The Organization’s evaluation policy, strategy and institutional arrangements.
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FAO Evaluation Strategy 2023-2025
An Interim Strategy for OED to build an architecture for excellence in supporting Management and Members’ culture of evidence in decision-making.
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Office of Evaluation Trust Fund Guide
This document provides guidelines that govern the Trust Fund. It has been updated to align with the evaluation strategy.
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Evaluation Trust Fund Guide - Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions on the OED Trust Fund Guide.
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Guidelines for the assessment of gender mainstreaming
Step-by-step guidance on how OED conducts gender assessment in the different types of evaluations.
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OED guidance note on evaluation syntheses
Guidance on planning, formulating and conducting evaluation syntheses.
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OED project evaluation manual for decentralized offices
Planning and conducting project evaluations under Budget Holder's responsibility
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OED Capacity Development Evaluation Framework
Guidance on how OED evaluations can assess the processes and outcomes of FAO capacity development interventions.
Ethical guidelines and standards
Documents in this section are available in English only
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UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework
This document provides revised evaluation competencies for the United
Nations system. Evaluation
competencies are important not only for evaluators and evaluation unit
heads, but also for evaluation commissioners and users.
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2020 UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation
This document aims to support UN entity
leaders and governing bodies as well as those organizing and conducting
evaluations for the UN to ensure that an ethical lens informs day to day
evaluation practice.
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Norms and Standards for Evaluation
These norms and standards by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) provide a benchmark against which organizations and programmes of the UN system can gauge their performance and improve the quality of evaluation.