Topics: Rural development

Posted on
Dec 10, 2019
Are agriculture programs supporting women to improve their livelihood?
Women constitute the majority of the agricultural labour force in small-scale and subsistence farming. What are the lessons learnt from agriculture programs with regards to the activities of the women in the agricultural sector?
November152019
Evaluation conference
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Table ronde: L'institutionnalisation de l'evaluation dans le secteur agricole
Report
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019 responds to this question, providing key guidance for an effective and sustainable solution of the problem. The report provides new estimates of the world’s food that is lost from post-harvest up to, but excluding, the retail level. It also offers a...
Report
Meta-evidence review on impacts of investments in agricultural and rural development on Sustainable Development Goals 1&2
Agriculture and rural development research will play a critical role in meeting the ambitious targets under SDGs 1 and 2. In recent years there has been heightened emphasis on both the rigorous evaluation of development interventions and systematic reviews and meta-analyses based on such evaluations...
Evaluation Synthesis
IFAD's engagement in pro-poor value chain development
This corporate-level evaluation assesses IFAD's performance in supporting the development of pro-poor value chain over 10 years. The report identifies opportunities for improving the outreach to poor and very poor producers that can be considered when designing projects, such as the factors that...
Posted on
Jul 26, 2019
Supporting smallhoder agriculture: what are your experiences in using evaluation?
Please share your views and examples on improving smallholder projects with evaluation.
From the EvalForward Community: how can we improve the quality of development projects?
In rural and agricultural development, projects are the main instrument for piloting and/or implementing policies and programmes.
Posted on
Jul 15, 2019
What can we do to improve the quality of development projects?
What is your list of "good practices" that can help improve development projects quality and effectiveness?
Posted on
Jun 26, 2019
Recurring errors in public policies and major projects: contributions and solutions from evaluation
How is evaluation helping address mistakes and failures of policies and major programmes?
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...
e-learning
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 EvalForward 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
EvalForward moving ahead at EvalColombo2018
EVAL-ForwARD first public launch took place at EvalColombo 2018. What are the expectations of the broader evaluation community?
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

Are agriculture programs supporting women to improve their livelihood?

Table ronde: L'institutionnalisation de l'evaluation dans le secteur agricole

The State of Food and Agriculture 2019

Meta-evidence review on impacts of investments in agricultural and rural development on Sustainable Development Goals 1&2

IFAD's engagement in pro-poor value chain development

Supporting smallhoder agriculture: what are your experiences in using evaluation?

From the EvalForward Community: how can we improve the quality of development projects?

What can we do to improve the quality of development projects?

Recurring errors in public policies and major projects: contributions and solutions from evaluation

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 EvalForward 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

EvalForward moving ahead at EvalColombo2018

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