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Lessons learned from managing Impact Evaluations on development interventions

Posted on 01/07/2019 by Alan de Brauw

Impact evaluations have recently been playing an increasingly prominent role as part of development interventions, including in agriculture and rural...

Discussion

Recurring errors in public policies and major projects: contributions and solutions from evaluation

Posted on 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...

Book

Leaving a footprint: Stories of evaluations that made a difference

This book compiles seven evaluation stories in development contexts, which in a diversified and innovative manner, produced positive effects in the...

Guidance Document

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...

e-learning

E-learning course - Understanding Rural Poverty

This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it...

Event

Join the webinar: Inclusive financial services for the rural poor

online, Jun 21, 2019 - Jun 21, 2019

The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) conducted an evaluation synthesis on inclusive financial services for the rural poor, which...

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What can evaluation do in terms of capacity development?

Posted on 20/06/2019 by Luisa Belli, Lavinia Monforte

The learning benefits of evaluations can go a long way in in developing capacities. EvalForward recently hosted a discussion on the connection between...

e-learning

E-learning course - Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes

The joint EU/IICA/CTA/FAO elearning course entitled: “Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes“ is now...

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Can agriculture and food security policies be effective when statistical data is unreliable?

Posted on 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?

Posted on 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...

Report

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...

Event

Knowledge-sharing seminar on conducting Impact Evaluations of Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Security Programmes

IFAD HQ, Jun 3, 2019 - Jun 3, 2019

Growing global attention and demand for better evidence on development results in recent years has increased pressure on international development...