Document d’orientation
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – Concepts, principles and tools
This guide serves as a resource for national facilitators, for project stakeholders and for other capacity development and monitoring experts to...
Topics: Agriculture
Discussion
The farmer as a key participant of M&E: lessons and experiences from Participatory M&E systems
Posté le 02/03/2020 by Emma Gausi Dear members, It is often bemoaned that Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) is “top-down”, donor-driven and overlooks the views and needs of the farmers who...
Blog
Measuring resilience-building in Karamoja, Uganda
Posté le 04/02/2020 by Rebecca Pietrelli I was recently involved in a mid-term evaluation of a multi-agency 2016-2020 programming to enhance resilience in Karamoja, the least-developed region...
Event
EvalForward webinar on the revised evaluation criteria
Online, - EvalForward is organising the webinar: Evaluation criteria: what's new and what changes for agriculture and food security? 12 February 2020 15:00 - 16...
Discussion
Are agriculture programs supporting women to improve their livelihood?
Posté le 10/12/2019 by Jackie (Jacqueline) Yiptong Avila Dear members, Women constitute the majority of the agricultural labour force in small-scale and subsistence farming. According to FAO, 43% of the...
Blog
Evaluation in the Agriculture sector: what do we know about countries’ capacities?
Posté le 27/11/2019 by Aurelie Larmoyer Evaluation and, more generally, Results-Based Management (RBM) are amongst the best-known instruments to strengthen accountability and learning, and...
Event
Table ronde: L'institutionnalisation de l'evaluation dans le secteur agricole
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, L’objet de cette table ronde est de recueillir les expériences de chacun afin de mieux cerner le rôle du Ministère de l’Agriculture dans l’évaluation...
Discussion
Youth in agriculture: what lessons can we draw from evaluations?
Posté le 31/10/2019 by DOROTHY LUCKS Dear all, Most of us working in agriculture have been aware of the rising average age of farmers, both men and women. There have been efforts over the...
Event
Learning event: 2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations
IFAD headquarters, Rome, Italy, - The objectives of the learning event are to share and further discuss the findings presented in the 2019 ARRI, with a particular emphasis on the 2019...
Rapport
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...
Event
Learning event on evaluating the support to pro-poor value chain development
IFAD headquarters in Rome, Italy., - The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) is pleased to invite you to a learning event on evaluating the support to pro-poor value chain...
Discussion
Enhancing funding and service delivery in agriculture: any ideas?
Posté le 10/09/2019 by Christine Abong Dear members, I work as Policy Analyst at the Local Government Finance Commission in Uganda and would like to propose a discussion on the issue...
Dossier
Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
Free e-learning course of 3 hours developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the World Food...
Discussion
Supporting smallhoder agriculture: what are your experiences in using evaluation?
Posté le 26/07/2019 by Richard Tinsley Dear Community of Practice, I have been working for nearly 40 years with smallholder farmers and their communities and have witnessed some recurring...
Blog
How can we improve the quality of development projects?
Posté le 25/07/2019 by Carlos Tarazona In rural and agricultural development, projects are the main instrument for piloting and/or implementing policies and programmes.
Discussion
What can we do to improve the quality of development projects?
Posté le 15/07/2019 by Carlos Tarazona In rural and agricultural development, projects are the main instrument for piloting and/or implementing policies and programmes. When evaluating...
Discussion
Recurring errors in public policies and major projects: contributions and solutions from evaluation
Posté le 26/06/2019 by Hynda Habchi Krachni Hello dear Community, I hope that you are all doing well. The topic I am proposing today concerns the main errors made in the design of public...
Document d’orientation
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...
Blog
Can agriculture and food security policies be effective when statistical data is unreliable?
Posté le 04/06/2019 by Emile Nounagnon HOUNGBO In conducting research presented at the AfrEA Conference, I was asking myself if the persistence of hunger and poverty in Africa was not related to...
Discussion
What can we do to improve food security data?
Posté le 04/06/2019 by Emile HOUNGBO Statistics usually play a vital role in supporting policy. It is critical to ensure the credibility and reliability of the data we use, given that...
Rapport
The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the subset of biodiversity that contributes in one way or another to agriculture and food production. It...