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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...

Technical Paper

UNDP-FAO: Climate Action Review Tool

Issued on 2025 by UNDP–FAO

The UNDP–FAO Climate Action Review (CAR) Tool aims to support adaptation planners’ and practitioners’ transition from the planning to the implementation stages to accelerate transformative climate action in the agriculture and land use sectors. To do...

Report

OECD: Mobilising private finance for development, climate and biodiversity in emerging markets and developing economies

Issued on 2025 by OECD

Emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) face a historic investment opportunity: delivering USD 7.5 trillion annually of investment to reignite growth, reduce poverty, and meet the broader set of Sustainable Development Goals. While public...

Book

The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture 2025 – The potential to produce more and better.

Issued on 2025 by FAO

In order to meet the demands of a growing global population, agriculture needs to produce about 50 percent more food, feed and fibre by 2050 compared with the volumes it generated in 2012, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture...

Report

White Paper: Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity: Towards a new pact for mobilizing capital, reforming systems, and driving transformation at scale.

Issued on 2025 by GDPRD

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development releases its latest white paper: “ Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity: Towards a new pact for mobilizing capital, reforming systems, and driving transformation at scale.” As...

Report

Putting a systems approach into action

Issued on 2025 by FAO

The purpose of Transforming food and agriculture through a systems approach is to clarify what a systems approach involves in practice across agrifood systems. It explains what a systems approach means in the context of agrifood systems, why it...

Guidance Document

Guidelines for the Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

Issued on 2025 by UNEG

The "Guidelines for the Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Cooperation Framework" were developed by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) and the UN Development Coordination Office (DCO). They provide a step-by-step approach to...

Guidance Document

Guide to Sharing Capacities in Scaling Innovations

Issued on 2025 by International Potato Center (CIP)

Abstract/Description The Capacity Sharing Guide presents a practical, participatory approach to strengthening capacities and scaling development initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers tools and methodologies that facilitate...