RE: The issues facing global agriculture | Eval Forward

Dear EVAL-ForwARD members,

I was delighted to see a lively debate raising from my discussion question! 

To my query about the need to address the burning issues I mentioned when evaluating agriculture-based interventions, the majority of your responses drew the attention on the scope of the evaluations, which are bound by theories of change. 

I continue to think that the commissioner/s of evaluation must take these concerns seriously when it comes to either policy level evaluation or to any activity related to agricultura-based programme evaluation in their future assessments. I strongly believe that as evaluators we should find a way to incorporate these burning issues in the TORs of evaluation for the benefit of programme implementers, and entities, so that they come to think more about productive and sustainable manners to lead there interventions in future.

I thank you all for your insightful contributions.

Isha Wedasinghe Miranda

Sri Lanka