The Extreme Rural Poverty Framework, launched on 18 June 2019, provides guidance for FAO’s contribution to addressing extreme poverty reduction. Striving to build consensus on FAO’s role in supporting countries to reach SDG 1, in particular Target 1.1, on eliminating extreme poverty, and SDG 2 on...

This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it in rural contexts. The course describes the key concepts and definitions of rural poverty and how it can be measured, its drivers and cross-cutting...

The joint EU/IICA/CTA/FAO elearning course entitled: “Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes“ is now available online. This course has the objective to support countries and regions in planning the information needs for monitoring, pilotage and...

Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the subset of biodiversity that contributes in one way or another to agriculture and food production. It includes crop, livestock, forest or aquaculture systems, harvested forest and aquatic species and wild species harvested for food and other products...

Edited by the International Development Evaluation Association - IDEAS, this book presents an authoritative overview of the role of evaluation in generating evidence for informed decision making and learning to advance sustainable development. Agenda 2030 includes the Sustainable Development Goals...

The purpose of this checklist is to guide the process of formulating and delivering evaluation recommendations. It is oriented to evaluators conducting evaluations, but may also be used by commissioners and/or managers of evaluation to help them clarify their expectations concerning recommendations...

This document was shared with EvalForward by Zahid Shabbir, M&E professional/trainer from Pakistan. It provides an overview of the key features of M&E systems.

This brief summarizes the WFP event Investing in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities held during the EvalMENA Conference. The World Food Programme (WFP) participation in EvalMENA is part of its commitment to expand the evaluation culture.

The Wilton Park event on Revisiting independence, objectivity, and the critically reflective role of evaluation for the SDG era took place from 25 to 27 June in West Sussex, UK. The purpose of this dialogue was to enable a high level, practical but informal debate, addressing conceptual and...

The Independent Evaluation Office and the Government of Turkey co-hosted the 2017 International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) in Istanbul, in collaboration with the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS and the European Evaluation Society (EES). The theme of the conference was...

The Journées Béninoises de l'Evaluation (JBE) took place from 6 to 8 august 2018. Organised by the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, the Evaluation Days are held every two years since the process of institutionalisation of evaluation started in Benin, in 2007. This year's theme...

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...

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.

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...