Documento de orientación
The Basics of Project Implementation. A Guide for Project Managers
This manual focuses specifically on the project implementation phase for field-based managers
The Effectiveness of Multi-stakeholder Platforms Towards Building of a Knowledge Delivery Infrastructure: Lessons from TAAT Implementation Framework
The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is a unique initiative funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to overcome critical challenges in delivering agricultural technologies and innovative solutions.
Evaluating Scaling Efforts: Measuring What Matters
We need to talk about scaling. Evaluators working in food security, agriculture, rural development, climate change, and other areas are increasingly called upon to help organizations scale the impact of their innovations, programs, and policies...
Your Voice Matters: Shaping the Future of EvalForward!Mini Survey Results.
To all members of the EvalForward Community of Practice who took the time to complete our recent mini survey, thank you!
LibroWorld Food and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2024
The Statistical Yearbook 2024 offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and factors of production, their implications...
Documento de orientaciónEvaluation of International Development Interventions An Overview of Approaches and Methods
This guide provides an overview of evaluation approaches and methods that have been used in the field of international development evaluation.
LibroArtificial Intelligence and Evaluation Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation
Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the landscape of program evaluation will be redefined by artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies. In an era where digital technologies...
ResumenTheory-based impact evaluation for rural poverty reduction
This course by FAO elearning Academy considers the importance of evaluation of multisectoral strategies for poverty reduction, and discusses the six principles of which theory based impact evaluations should be based in order to identify and test the causal mechanism through which these strategies...
Evaluating agroecology: what is your experience?
Members are invited to share their experiences in evaluating the sustainability of agricultural, and specifically agroecological, programmes.
Evaluation in times of Covid-19Making voices count - Gathering community feedback in times of remote evaluation
External coherence of agriculture interventions
Lack of external coherence in agriculture projects can cause antagonism among interventions or implementation strategies and annihilate the results and progress achieved. This often leads to strategic behaviour (bias) on the part of beneficiaries.
Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture
Innovations are key to improve the effectiveness of agri-food systems and better meet the rising demand for food worldwide. In particular, they are essential to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets.
Evaluating business innovations in agriculture-based social enterprises
Innovation is not about technology alone. Innovation is about the process of using ideas (novel or otherwise) in new ways and combinations, for economic, social and/or environmental gain.
Value chain approaches: reaching the very poor
A value chain is the full range of activities – including design, production and distribution – required to bring a product or service from conception to its final market destination.
Síntesis de evaluaciónCommunity-driven development in IFAD-supported projects
The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) has prepared an evaluation synthesis report on Community-Driven Development (CDD), based on an in-depth review of a representative sample of IFAD projects carried out since 1978. CDD has played a pivotal role in IFAD’s operations for over 30 years...
Struggling to prove the obvious – How can evaluations show that community-driven development works?
Community-driven development (CDD) emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources, operating on principles of transparency, participation, accountability and enhanced local capacity.
From the EvalForward communityYoung People in Agriculture – What lessons can we draw from evaluations?
Youth are becoming increasingly disconnected from the agriculture sector, despite the evidence that there have been some efforts over the years to boost the engagement of young people in agriculture.
Are agriculture programs supporting women to improve their livelihood?
Women constitute the majority of the agricultural labour force in small-scale and subsistence farming. What are the lessons learnt from agriculture programs with regards to the activities of the women in the agricultural sector?- Conferencia sobre evaluaciónOuagadougou, Burkina Faso
Table ronde: L'institutionnalisation de l'evaluation dans le secteur agricole
InformeMeta-evidence review on impacts of investments in agricultural and rural development on Sustainable Development Goals 1&2
Agriculture and rural development research will play a critical role in meeting the ambitious targets under SDGs 1 and 2. In recent years there has been heightened emphasis on both the rigorous evaluation of development interventions and systematic reviews and meta-analyses based on such evaluations...
Supporting smallhoder agriculture: what are your experiences in using evaluation?
Please share your views and examples on improving smallholder projects with evaluation.
From the EvalForward communityHow can we improve the quality of development projects?
In rural and agricultural development, projects are the main instrument for piloting and/or implementing policies and programmes.
What can we do to improve the quality of development projects?
What is your list of "good practices" that can help improve development projects quality and effectiveness?
Recurring errors in public policies and major projects: contributions and solutions from evaluation
How is evaluation helping address mistakes and failures of policies and major programmes?
Documento de orientaciónFAO Framework on Rural Extreme Poverty
The Extreme Rural Poverty Framework, launched on 18 June 2019, provides guidance for FAO’s contribution to addressing extreme poverty reduction. Striving to build consensus on FAO’s role in supporting countries to reach SDG 1, in particular Target 1.1, on eliminating extreme poverty, and SDG 2 on...
ResumenE-learning course - Understanding Rural Poverty
This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it in rural contexts. The course describes the key concepts and definitions of rural poverty and how it can be measured, its drivers and cross-cutting...- Seminario webonline
Join the webinar: Inclusive financial services for the rural poor
- Seminario webIFAD HQ
Knowledge-sharing seminar on conducting Impact Evaluations of Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Security Programmes
Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings
When communicating with rural communities with their own dialect, WFP Colombia gets creative, with pens, paint and paper.
We need evaluation to support agricultural transformation in Africa
Daudi Sumba, head of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), shares his views on how evaluation can support Africa's agricultural transformation.- FormaciónIstambul, Turkey
PRiME Impact Evaluation Course
What about stakeholders? Evaluation of social protection programs.
Have you ever been involved in the evaluation of social protection programs? What is the approach to assessing such programs? What are the key elements that any expert would be looking for in social protection activities/programs?
From the EvalForward communityWhat are your evaluation challenges?
The latest discussion in the EvalForward CoP covered challenges that evaluations encounter in the agriculture, rural development and food security sectors and beyond. Here is a summary of the issues emerging and ways forward suggested.- TallerRome, Italy and on webcast
Learning event on the Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations 2018
Improving Agriculture and Food Security through Evaluation
Call now open for the 9th AfrEA International Conference.
Challenges of evaluation
What constraints do you encounter during the different evaluations of programs and interventions on rural development, agriculture and food security? How do you get around them? And which are the ones you cannot get around?- Conferencia sobre evaluaciónAbidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
9th AfrEA Conference
EvalForward moving ahead at EvalColombo2018
EvalForward first public launch took place at EvalColombo 2018. What are the expectations of the broader evaluation community?
What works in improving food security and nutrition in very poor communities?
I would be interested in examples from your evaluation experience of projects that have been successful in improving food security, and in particular food access, in extremely poor communities: could you please share them?