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Your Voice Matters: Shaping the Future of EvalForward!Mini Survey Results.
Posted on 29/11/2024 by Chamisa Innocent To all members of the EvalForward Community of Practice who took the time to complete our recent mini survey, thank you!
Topics: Agriculture
Book
World Food and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2024
Issued on 2024 by FAO The Statistical Yearbook 2024 offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented...
Guidance Document
Capacity development in evaluation and communication_ Prompts for facilitators
Issued on 2024 by IDRC This guide is meant for facilitators of capacity development and organizational learning. This includes professionals from various fields including...
Book
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Issued on 2024 by FAO; IFAD; UNICEF; WFP; WHO Every year, this most intensely scrutinized of FAO’s reports presents the headline number of undernourished people around the world, while advocating...
Book
Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation
Issued on 2024 by Routledge Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the...
EvalForEarth Summary
Summary: Proving the value of agroecology for farmers and food systems: what methods and evidence do we have?
Issued on 2023 by EvalForward Ravinder Kumar, associate professor at the University of Greenwich, London, started a discussion on EvalForward aimed at gathering experience of how...
Discussion
Proving the value of agroecology for farmers and food systems: what methods and evidence do we have?
Posted on 14/11/2023 by Ravinder Kumar Agroecology at farm level is about good agricultural practices, such as crop diversification and rotation, intercropping, crop-livestock integration...
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Conducting MEL with digital agriculture service providers – lessons from leveraging MEL to develop farmer-centric digital services
Posted on 25/09/2023 by Emily GambleDiscussion
How to evaluate science, technology and innovation in a R4D context? New guidelines offer some solutions
Posted on 10/05/2023 by Svetlana Negroustoueva Dear colleagues, The Evaluation Function of CGIAR would like to reopen last year’s discussion on How to evaluate science, technology and innovation in...
Guidance Document
Monitoring, evaluation and learning in farmer field school programmes. A framework and toolkit
Issued on 2007 by a This document provides guidance and tools that will help farmer field schools to bring about the change expected by setting up a robust monitoring...
Discussion
A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Posted on 15/03/2023 by Daniel Ticehurst Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), monitoring...
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“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
Posted on 14/03/2023 by Daniel Ticehurst There is an apparent irony in the fact that systems supposedly designed to help us learn from experience have been so reluctant to learn from their...
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Monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture and rural development sectors ‒ reflections on the NEC Conference
Posted on 08/11/2022 by Monica Lomena, Renata MirullaDiscussion
Evaluating agroecology: what is your experience?
Posted on 27/04/2022 by Seda Kojoyan Dear EvalForward Community, As evaluators working in the agriculture field, we increasingly need to assess the environmental and socioeconomic...
Guidance Document
Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) - Test version
With the help of multiple partners, FAO has developed a global analytical framework for the multidimensional assessment of the performance of...
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Evaluation and performance assessments for agroecology
Posted on 20/04/2022 by Seda Kojoyan As evaluators, we are often encouraged to collaborate early with projects and programmes, in order to establish baselines, for instance.
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Connecting data and research to policies to transform the agricultural sector: the EPA Forum
Posted on 30/03/2022 by Kisito Gandji, Carolle Ahodekon From 2 to 3 December 2021, the Evidences - Policies - Actions (EPA) Forum had its second edition, organised in a hybrid format under the theme...
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning: How can we maximize capacity?
Posted on 02/11/2021 by Anna Maria Augustyn Growing interest in MEL Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) has recently gained momentum in the context of agricultural innovation and...
Guidance Document
Impact assessment and evaluation tools
This handbook was developed by the EU LIASON Project Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks, and contains...
Blog
An insight into evaluating agricultural innovation challenges and prizes
Posted on 17/05/2021 by Bhavik DoshiDiscussion
External coherence of agriculture interventions
Posted on 23/11/2020 by Nabyouré Jean Stanislas OUEDRAOGO Dear members, I would like to share with you one of the themes I am working on at the moment. In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector is the field of...