Evaluation and performance assessments for agroecology
As evaluators, we are often encouraged to collaborate early with projects and programmes, in order to establish baselines, for instance.
Síntesis de evaluaciónEvidence pathways to gender equality and food systems transformation
This paper presents 9 critical lessons to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment and transform our food systems, drawing from 47 independent evaluations recently carried out by FAO, IFAD, WFP and the CGIAR. This publication is a contribution by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and...
Síntesis de evaluaciónEvidence Summary on COVID-19 and Food Security
This evidence summary published by UNEG (United Nations Evaluation Group) and summarized by EvalForward in a brief, looks at the findings, good practices and lessons learned from past evaluations of interventions to protect food security in times of crises, in order to contribute to a more effective...
Do school feeding and education play a role in keeping girls safe?
When schools were closed during a five-month period of lockdown in Kenya this year, almost 4,000 schoolgirls became pregnant in one county alone.
Impact Evaluation in the humanitarian spaceResilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence
In 2019, the world recorded 135 million "acutely food-insecure people in crisis or worse". More than three quarters of them lived in countries affected by conflict or extreme weather events.
InformeTracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020
This year marks the 10-year countdown to the end-date of the 2030 Agenda. According to the data contained in the FAO report, collected before the COVID-19 pandemic, progress remains insufficient in the food and agriculture domain, suggesting that the world is not on track to meet the relevant...
Evaluation in times of Covid-19How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel
An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana and Tim Njagi, shared their experiences from Cameroon, Rwanda and Kenya respectively.
BoletínNote on the review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector
This brief summarizes the main results of the Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector carried out by the Office of Evaluaution of FAO with EvalForward. The study aimed at clarifying monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities, capacities and dynamics taking place in...- Seminario webonline
Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19
Global development indicators are not just numbers
On July 13th, the 2020 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World was presented by its authors - FAO, IFAD, WHO, WFP and UNICEF - at the UN High-Level Policy Forum on Sustainable Development in New York.
Síntesis de evaluaciónLessons from Evaluations: Responding to Food Security during Covid 19
Under the framework of the Covid-19 Evaluation Coalition, Global Affairs Canada, FAO, IFAD, WFP and other agencies identified key lessons that should inform food security and nutrition interventions during covid-19. As a follow-up to this initiative, FAO, IFAD, UNIDO and WFP are launching a rapid...
How can evaluation help improve data quality and policies on food security during Covid-19 pandemic?
Data on food production, prices, trade, market access, nutrition and data on population without access/constrained access to food items are all affected by the current pandemic
Evaluation in the age of big data: Opportunities and challenges in agriculture and food security
Most evaluations require adjusting methodology to real-world constraints, whether they be economic, technical, organizational, political, or related to time or data.
Measuring resilience-building in Karamoja, Uganda
I was recently involved in a mid-term evaluation of a multi-agency 2016-2020 programming to enhance resilience in Karamoja, the least-developed region of Uganda.- Seminario webOnline
EvalForward webinar on the revised evaluation criteria
ResumenSustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
Free e-learning course of 3 hours developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bioversity International. The course includes: The relationship between...
Can agriculture and food security policies be effective when statistical data is unreliable?
In conducting research presented at the AfrEA Conference, I was asking myself if the persistence of hunger and poverty in Africa was not related to the unreliability of statistics.
What can we do to improve food security data?
How can we monitor and evaluate efficiently progress towards the SDG2 – Ending Hunger if we cannot count on reliable data and consequent statistics and indicators? Do you think there are also weakness and challenges in data collection in your country?
InformeThe State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the subset of biodiversity that contributes in one way or another to agriculture and food production. It includes crop, livestock, forest or aquaculture systems, harvested forest and aquatic species and wild species harvested for food and other products...
Acta de eventoInvesting in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities.
This brief summarizes the WFP event Investing in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities held during the EvalMENA Conference. The World Food Programme (WFP) participation in EvalMENA is part of its commitment to expand the evaluation culture.
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.
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?
The issues facing global agriculture
What aspects should always be included in evaluation Terms of Reference of agriculture-based interventions?
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?
Gender and evaluation of food security
How to properly take charge of the "gender" theme during evaluations of food security projects and programs or sustainable agriculture? Is it enough to simply associate women to different activities carried out in projects / programs as it is often practice to say that one is gender-sensitive? What