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From Hindsight to Foresight: How Evaluation Can Become Future-Informed

The online discussion will remain open for contributions until  30 April 2026! Background and RationaleFood security, environmental, and agricultural development programmes increasingly operate in volatile, uncertain, and complex contexts. Climate disruption, ecosystem degradation, shiftin...

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Youth farmers beneficiaries in Kenya 2020

Reporting evaluation results or communicating evaluation results?

A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects

What type of evaluator are you?

lessons learned

How to define and identify lessons learned?

Farmers collecting data in Sudan

Developing effective, inclusive and gender responsive MEAL systems

The pervasive power of western evaluation culture: how and in what ways do you wrestle with ensuring evaluation is culturally appropriate and beneficial to those who legitimise development aid?

Do you have examples on reviewing Theories of Change?

Evaluating agroecology: what is your experience?

How to evaluate science, technology and innovation in a development context?

Monitoring and evaluation: is this the perfect combination to meet the needs of decision-makers?

Neutrality-impartiality-independence. At which stage of the evaluation is each concept important?

Are you considering social and environmental criteria in your evaluations?

Rainbow Framework

Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence

Making data collection meaningful and useful to farmers: what is your experience?

Making more use of local institutions in evaluation

Jordan

Can we use an evidence-based, evolving Theory of Change to achieve "local learning” during project design?

External coherence of agriculture interventions

How do we move forward on Evaluation Systems in the Agriculture Sector?