Despite the significant challenges faced by persons with disabilities living in rural areas, there is comparatively less experience in addressing disability inclusion through evaluations related to agriculture, rural development and food security.
Evaluators may find themselves having to adapt their approach to the new reality of the COVID pandemic in the short- and medium-term. Please share your experience and suggestions on how to adapt evalaution approaches.
For agriculture to grow and innovate we need young people to engage. However, the average age of agriculture workers is increasing.
What can evaluation tell us on the rising age in agriculture work and on how to address this issue?
Please share your views and examples on improving smallholder projects with evaluation.
We are looking for practical examples of evaluations that helped developing capacities of evaluands and other actors, including beneficiaries. If you carried out participatory evaluations, did those lead to any clear development of capacities (even soft skills?) And did you evaluate the capacity development component of the evaluation itself?
Did you experience challenges due to differences in the use of terminology between people who planned the project and evaluators when doing evaluations? And if you did, how did you handle them?
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?
I am trying to think how best we can measure the impact of monitoring and evaluation work and would be grateful if you could share your experience and ideas with me.
What is your take on how to measure the impact or changes that are informed by the monitoring and 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?
What aspects should always be included in evaluation Terms of Reference of agriculture-based interventions?
What is developmental evaluation and how does it differ from other program evaluation approaches?