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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...

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...

Dr. Robina Shaheen, Global Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services, Action Against Hunger, UK: The biggest effect has been on our ability...

The subject is steadily gaining prominence in the development context, as traditional food systems are being replaced by organized value chains. In...

We produce many evaluations and a huge amount of evidence each year – but how much information are we really digesting? Michael Quinn Patton, Founder...