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Have you ever noticed that beneficiaries always tend to be smiling on the front cover of development reports? I sometimes wonder how realistic this is...

In 2020, IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation undertook a project evaluation of the National Programme Community Empowerment in Indonesia. [1] This...

In the first of a new series of knowledge-sharing sessions open to members of the Community, participants shared how they have adapted their...

Prior to the pandemic, traveling and face-to-face meetings with stakeholders allowed evaluation managers a degree of flexibility and control over...

The current ‘ 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Campaign’ [i] is an opportunity to spotlight a growing body of evidence that...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and/or exacerbated any pre-existing issues worldwide. For evaluators too, since March 2020, additional questions...

She shares her views on what to consider when designing an evaluation, the challenges of producing real-time information and innovative ways of...

In this context, during 2019-2020, the IFAD independent office of evaluation (IOE) conducted a corporate-level evaluation of IFAD’s support to...

Innovations can take different forms, including technological (probably the most obvious), organizational, business, social and policy. They also can...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to almost double this figure to a projected 265 million. Long-term projections indicate that food security...

All three underscored the importance of data quality in the sector, from calculating food security deficits, food production, and consumption, to more...

Dr. Robina Shaheen, Global Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services, Action Against Hunger, UK: There is a greater burden of data...