Topics: Rural development

Guidance Document
FAO Framework on Rural Extreme Poverty
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...
Other
E-learning course - Understanding Rural Poverty
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...
Technical Paper
Digital Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Areas - Briefing Paper
Agriculture has undergone a series of revolutions that have driven efficiency, yield and profitability to previously unattainable levels. Market forecasts for the next decade suggest a ‘digital agricultural revolution’ will be the newest shift which could help ensure agriculture meets the needs of...
June212019until Jun 21
Webinar
online
Join the webinar: Inclusive financial services for the rural poor
June32019until Jun 3
Webinar
IFAD HQ
Knowledge-sharing seminar on conducting Impact Evaluations of Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Security Programmes
Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings
When communicating with rural communities with their own dialect, WFP Colombia gets creative, with pens, paint and paper.
We need evaluation to support agricultural transformation in Africa
Daudi Sumba, head of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), shares his views on how evaluation can support Africa's agricultural transformation.
May62019until May 10
Training
Istambul, Turkey
PRiME Impact Evaluation Course
Posted on
Dec 19, 2018
What about stakeholders? Evaluation of social protection programs.
Have you ever been involved in the evaluation of social protection programs? What is the approach to assessing such programs?
What are the key elements that any expert would be looking for in social protection activities/programs?
From the EVAL-ForwARD Community: what are your evaluation challenges?
The latest discussion in the EVAL-ForwARD CoP covered challenges that evaluations encounter in the agriculture, rural development and food security sectors and beyond. Here is a summary of the issues emerging and ways forward suggested.
Evaluation Synthesis
FAO Programme Evaluation Report 2017
The Programme Evaluation Report 2017 is now available to download. This report aims to provide Member Countries and other readers with an analytical summary of the emerging and recurrent trends in evaluations, and to discuss the main results, gaps and lessons found in FAO’s work in the period of...
Evaluation Synthesis
2018 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations
The 2018 ARRI presents a synthesis of IFAD’s performance and highlights results and systemic issues from independent evaluations conducted in 2017. The quantitative analysis draws on ratings from 320 evaluations conducted since 2002
October262018
Workshop
Rome, Italy and on webcast
Learning event on the Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations 2018
Improving Agriculture and Food Security through Evaluation
Call now open for the 9th AfrEA International Conference.
Posted on
Oct 15, 2018
Challenges of evaluation
What constraints do you encounter during the different evaluations of programs and interventions on rural development, agriculture and food security? How do you get around them? And which are the ones you cannot get around?
March112019until Mar 15
Evaluation conference
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
9th AfrEA Conference
EVAL-ForwARD moving ahead at EvalColombo2018
EVAL-ForwARD first public launch took place at EvalColombo 2018. What are the expectations of the broader evaluation community?
Other
EVAL-ForwARD brochure
Promotional brochure of the EVAL-ForwARD Community of Practice.
Posted on
Jul 23, 2018
What works in improving food security and nutrition in very poor communities?
I would be interested in examples from your evaluation experience of projects that have been successful in improving food security, and in particular food access, in extremely poor communities: could you please share them?

Topics: Rural development

Topics: Rural development

FAO Framework on Rural Extreme Poverty

E-learning course - Understanding Rural Poverty

Digital Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Areas - Briefing Paper

Join the webinar: Inclusive financial services for the rural poor

Knowledge-sharing seminar on conducting Impact Evaluations of Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Security Programmes

Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings

We need evaluation to support agricultural transformation in Africa

PRiME Impact Evaluation Course

What about stakeholders? Evaluation of social protection programs.

From the EVAL-ForwARD Community: what are your evaluation challenges?

FAO Programme Evaluation Report 2017

2018 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations

Learning event on the Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations 2018

Improving Agriculture and Food Security through Evaluation

Challenges of evaluation

9th AfrEA Conference

EVAL-ForwARD moving ahead at EvalColombo2018

EVAL-ForwARD brochure

What works in improving food security and nutrition in very poor communities?