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Guidance Document
Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender equality, Environments and Marginalized voices (ISE4GEMs): A new approach for the SDG era
This guide published by UN Women, the organization of the United Nations system dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, strives to bring together trans-disciplinary evaluation methods through a systemic evaluation approach. The Guide covers important concepts from systems thinking...
Report
The State of Food and Agriculture 2018. Migration, agriculture and rural development
Migration is an expanding global reality which allows millions of people to seek new opportunities, but it also involves challenges for migrants and societies. Are there specific policy directions that governments should keep in mind to maximize the opportunities migration brings while minimizing...
Report
WFP Annual Evaluation Report 2017
This evaluation report provides an overview of centralized and decentralized evaluations completed, conducted and planned by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the period 2016-2018 and highlights the various types of evaluation evidence available to support the organization's strategic priorities....
Guidance Document
A Guide to SDG interactions: from science to implementation
This report explores the nature of interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is based on the premise that a science-informed analysis of interactions across SDGs domains can support more coherent and effective decision-making, and better facilitate follow-up and monitoring...
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EVAL-ForwARD brochure
Promotional brochure of the EVAL-ForwARD Community of Practice.
Report
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World ( SOFI ) 2018 confirms a rise in world hunger: the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to levels from almost a decade ago. Multiple forms of malnutrition are evident in many countries:...
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Réseau Francophone de l'Evaluation
Presentation of the Réseau Francophone de l'Evaluation (RFE)
Evaluation Synthesis
What works for gender equality and women's empowerment - Evaluation synthesis
This report provides a systematic review of gender equality and women's empowerment practices and results that have been documented in 57 evaluations carried out by the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD since 2011.
Event Proceedings
Rural inequalities: evaluating approaches to overcome disparities
Evaluation has the potential to inform organizations and governments if their interventions are indeed contributing to reducing inequality within rural communities. This Conference, organized by the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, explored critical questions regarding whether strategies...
Guidance Document
Developing Sustainable food value chains - guiding principles
This handbook (1) provides a clear definition of the concept of a sustainable food value chain; (2) presents and discusses a development paradigm that integrates the multidimensional concepts of sustainability and value added; (3) presents, discusses and illustrates ten principles that underlie...
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Ending poverty and hunger by investing in agriculture and rural areas
Investing in the agricultural sectors is key to eradicating poverty, hunger and malnutrition, particularly in rural areas where most of the world’s poorest live. This publication
Guidance Document
Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Rural Development
This guidance brief focuses on the integration of nutrition into agriculture and rural development policies and programs. It aims to provide practical guidance for maximizing the nutrition impacts of agriculture investments by action on the following fronts: (i) incorporate nutrition-sensitive...