How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected evaluation design?
Posted on 15/12/2020 by Nanae Yabuki Prior to the pandemic, traveling and face-to-face meetings with stakeholders allowed evaluation managers a degree of flexibility and control over...
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Do school feeding and education play a role in keeping girls safe?
Posted on 08/12/2020 by Catrina Perch, Niamh O'Grady The current ‘ 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Campaign’ [i] is an opportunity to spotlight a growing body of evidence that...
Evaluation questions the value of aid interventions. We need to keep warranting the value of evaluation.
Posted on 02/12/2020 by Aurelie Larmoyer, Veridiana Mansour Mendes The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and/or exacerbated any pre-existing issues worldwide. For evaluators too, since March 2020, additional questions...
We are evaluating a moving picture
Posted on 17/11/2020 She shares her views on what to consider when designing an evaluation, the challenges of producing real-time information and innovative ways of...
Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture
Posted on 11/11/2020 by KOUESSI MAXIMIN ZACHARIE KODJO, Pamela Dianne White, Anne Floquet In this context, during 2019-2020, the IFAD independent office of evaluation (IOE) conducted a corporate-level evaluation of IFAD’s support to...
Evaluating business innovations in agriculture-based social enterprises
Posted on 26/10/2020 by Ravinder Kumar, Andy Frost Innovations can take different forms, including technological (probably the most obvious), organizational, business, social and policy. They also can...
Resilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence
Posted on 19/10/2020 by Hanna Paulose, Jonas Leo Heirman, Paul Christian, Chloe Fernandez 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...
How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel
Posted on 21/09/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA All three underscored the importance of data quality in the sector, from calculating food security deficits, food production, and consumption, to more...
What challenges does Covid-19 present to independent and credible evaluations?
Posted on 21/07/2020 Dr. Robina Shaheen, Global Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services, Action Against Hunger, UK: There is a greater burden of data...
Global development indicators are not just numbers
Posted on 13/07/2020 by Olivier Cossée The theme of this year's report is " Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets". The SOFI 2020 report examines the cost of healthy diets...
How is the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions on movement affecting the conduct of evaluations?
Posted on 30/06/2020 Dr. Robina Shaheen, Global Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services, Action Against Hunger, UK: The biggest effect has been on our ability...
Value chain approaches: reaching the very poor
Posted on 05/06/2020 by Fabrizio Felloni The subject is steadily gaining prominence in the development context, as traditional food systems are being replaced by organized value chains. In...