Resources

This guidance note was developed by the Office of Evaluation (OED) of FAO to support the planning, formulation and conduct of evaluation syntheses. It provides definitions, a typology of synthesis which can be appropriate to conduct depending whether less or more time and resources are available. as...

This handbook was developed by the EU LIASON Project Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks, and contains 37 tools that can be used to evaluate/assess the impact of interactive innovation. The tools are practice-ready: each is explained in a procedural...

This note by the Asian Development Bank summarizes the meanings of evaluation utilization and the factors influencing evaluation utilizations based on literature review. Adapted by John Scott Bayley, Evaluation Specialist, ADB, 2018.

This book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability and learning to inform its decision-making on programming priorities, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground. The book is based on real-life...

This study by the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA) presents an overview on the status of the national evaluation policies and systems in the Asia Pacific Region. It is based on a survey which examined the the dimensions of an evaluation system, such as enabling environment, institutional...

This OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries paper provides a panoramic overview of different types of evidence gaps on food systems and their causes, and makes the case that better evidence is needed to enable better policies. At the same time, evidence will never be complete. Policy makers and the...

This book aims to help you improve the utilization of evaluation through a method called “EvaluVision”, a combination of Evaluation and Visualization. Through visual thinking, EvaluVision encourages engagement from various level, management, programme, implementing partners, national and subnational...

This book, the sixth following an IDEAS Global Assembly, smartly combines conceptual and methodological analyses of and proposals for transformational evaluation and its potential to contribute to transformative development, with a range of practical experiences and testimonies. Additionally, this...

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...

Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all The SOFI 2021 report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further...

The UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation were first published in 2008. This document is a revision of the original document and was approved at the UNEG AGM 2020. These revised guidelines aim to support UN entity leaders and governing bodies as well as those organizing and conducting evaluations...

Evaluation – like development aid itself – can unintentionally exacerbate tensions in ways that can negatively affect people and institutions if care is not taken in designing and approaching it with caution and sensitivity. This practical guidance from global evaluation practitioners, released by...