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The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 presents new estimates on the pervasiveness of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture and of water shortages in rainfed agriculture, as well as on the number of people affected. It finds major differences across countries, and also substantial spatial...

The handling of the COVID-19 crisis has shown that governments can take prompt evidence-based actions to protect people, livelihoods and the economy. This briefing outlines four key ways in which evaluations can accelerate progress towards effective climate policy.

This interactive report has been produced to disseminate the findings of the study on evaluation dissemination at DG DEVCO, EU Delegations and non-EU organisations around the world such as the Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, World...

This paper presents an overview of innovative technologies to overcome the obstacles to evaluation in fragile and conflict affected states and in hard-to reach-areas. It is based on lessons learned from a series of conferences held by the European Union DG DEVCO’s Evaluation Support Service in 2019...

The Rapid Evaluation guideline issued by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) of South Africa provides provide technical guidance on undertaking rapid evaluations – either internally, facilitated or undertaken externally. The Rapid Evaluations toolkit, based on the work of...

The Global Report on Food Crises tracks the numbers and locations of acutely food-insecure people most in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance during the peak or worst point in 2019. The report is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity...

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...

This briefing note explores the use of outcome mapping (OM) as a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) approach to track behavioural change and inform adaptation for two programmes: the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies (PRISE) research consortium and the Accountability in Tanzania...

The guide explains how to use communication to support evaluation, It is structured around three broad phases of the evaluation process: before, during and after, and provides advice and practical hints on how to use communication for each of these phases. Practical tools and templates are also...

This third FAO toolkit addresses why gender-sensitive implementation matters, reviews gender-sensitive programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and learning systems while describing how to develop a gender-sensitive M&E framework.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the implementation of quarantine measures and travel restrictions worldwide, impacting ongoing and future evaluation. FP’s Office of Evaluation released a technical note presenting a set of guiding principles and evaluability considerations to undertake evaluations...

The Building forward better initiative - ”Strengthening natural resources management capacities to revitalise agriculture in fragile contexts” project stems from the recognition of the importance of investing in human capital in fragile contexts. In the framework of the project a number of webinars...