Video Evaluation: les ficelles du métier Dans cette vidéo, Olivier Cossée du Bureau de l’évaluation de la FAO, donne des conseils pratiques sur comment combiner approches qualitatives et quantitatives dans les études d’impact.
Report The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 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...
Brief The climate crisis: four ways evaluations can strengthen policymaking 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.
Guidance Document Engaging your audience. Creative communications for evaluation dissemination. 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...
Guidance Document Evaluation in Hard-to-Reach Areas 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...
Guidance Document Rapid evaluations guideline and toolkit 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...
Report Global Report on Food Crises 2020 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...
Report Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020 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...
Guidance Document Outcome mapping learning brief 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...
Guidance Document A guide: integrating communication in evaluation 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...
Guidance Document Integrating gender into implementation and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer and public works programmes 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.
Technical Paper Technical Note for planning and conducting evaluations during Covid-19 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...