Resources | EvalForEarth

Report

United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation- 2026 Annual Report | Strengthening use, accountability and transparency

Issued on 2026 by United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-

The 2026 Annual Report underscores that system-wide evaluation is most effective when taken up to improve performance, inform decision-making and strengthen accountability. Strengthening the use of evaluation evidence is critical to ensure that...

Guidance Document

AI in evaluation: Good practice guidelines for practitioners NOVEMBER 2025 V 1.

AI offers significant opportunities to enhance evaluation practice throughout the evaluation lifecycle. That said, with opportunity comes responsibility. This guide from the UK Evaluation Society manages the balance between potential and risk...

Report

Research, programmes and evaluations in the land sector: trends and emerging lessons

Issued on 2026 by Land Facility Decision Support Unit (DSU)

This research paper has been commissioned through the Land Facility Decision Support Unit (DSU) to synthesise both relevant academic literature and evaluation reports of land programmes, covering the evaluative experience of the land sector over the...

Summary EN - From Hindsight to Foresight

EvalForEarth Summary

From Hindsight to Foresight: How Evaluation Can Help Us Prepare for Uncertain Futures Summary of the EvalforEarth Discussion

Issued on 2026 by EvalforEarth

This EvalforEarth discussion explored how evaluation can become more future-informed, particularly in food security, environmental and agricultural development contexts. The discussion began from a shared recognition that evaluation has traditionally...

Guidance Document

Strengthening the System-Wide Architecture for Data Quality Assurance to Support Evaluability: Synthesis Note

Issued on 2026 by CGIAR IAES

This Synthesis Note examines the gap between CGIAR’s strategic ambition for system-wide evaluability and the current maturity of its data systems and evidence architecture. Drawing on four evaluative studies conducted between 2023 and 2026, it...

Guidance Document

Evaluation synthesis of WFP’s engagement in humanitarian coordination

Issued on 2026 by WFP OEV

Conducted at a time of rising humanitarian needs, declining resources and systemic reforms reshaping collective action, this synthesis draws on 65 WFP evaluations carried out between 2018 and 2025 and assesses WFP’s role, strengths and challenges in...

Brief

EvalforEarth Brief

Issued on 2026

EvalforEarth is a merged Community of Practice (CoP) on evaluation for food security, environment, agriculture and rural development. Its founding and main sponsoring partners are the Evaluation Offices of FAO, WFP, CGIAR, and the GEF, with support...

EvalForEarth Summary

Global Impact Evaluation Forum 2025_Discussion Summary

Issued on 2026 by EvalforEarth

The 2025 Global Impact Evaluation Forum, hosted by WFP in partnership with BMZ and Norad, convenes practitioners and policymakers to advance evidence partnerships that can drive more coherent, cost‑effective, and localized action across the UN system...

Guidance Document

Digital Agriculture and AI Innovation Roadmap For the Global Agrifood Systems Transformation

Issued on 2025 by FAO

The Digital agriculture and AI innovation roadmap crystallizes a shared vision: an agrifood future where innovation is inclusive, trusted, and relentlessly focused on impact. Developed through a multistakeholder dialogue, the roadmap translates the...

Guidance Document

Guide to monitoring, evaluation and learning toolkits for grassroots agricultural extension and advisory service systems

Issued on 2026 by FAO

The monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) system is critical to strengthen field-level agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) systems and thereby support smallholder farmers’ access to agricultural innovations. However, most national...

Technical Paper

Carbon markets and food systems

Issued on 2026 by CIFOR-ICRAF: Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya

Carbon markets are increasingly recognized as a central instrument of international climate cooperation, yet their potential to support the decarbonization of food systems remains largely untapped. Food systems—spanning agriculture, land use and land...

Evaluation Synthesis

Evaluation Pills

Issued on 2026 by IFAD IOE

There is scope for applying the principles of social neuroscience investigations to the field of evaluation. Evidence suggests that doing so would likely enhance the transformative potential of evaluation by strengthening evaluators’ resilience, and...

EvalForEarth Summary

How to Ensure the Effective Utilization of Feedback and Recommendations from Evaluation Reports in Decision-Making

Issued on 2025 by EvalforEarth

How to Ensure the Effective Utilization of Feedback and Recommendations from Evaluation Reports in Decision-Making Summary of the Discussion Although development organizations recognize the importance of stakeholder feedback, many fail to...

Brief

Rescuing the SDGs with Geospatial Information. How geospatial information can transform the production, measurement, monitoring and dissemination of SDG indicators

Issued on 2025 by UNEG

This paper aims to communicate and outline the opportunity and role for geospatial information for us all to ‘Rescue the SDGs’. It was developed by IAEG-SDGs’ Working Group on Geospatial Information via a small and focused writing team, composed of...