EvalForward Summary
EvalforEarth_discussion summary_2025_EN
Issued on 2025 by EvalforEarth Summary of the EvalforEarth Online Discussion: Evaluating Agri-Food Systems Transformation Policies and Regulations.
Topics: Food Security
Discussion
Maximizing the impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in a changing aid architecture through evaluation.
Posted on 24/04/2025 by Carlos Tarazona Purpose: To foster a dialogue among evaluators and development practitioners on how to effectively evaluate South-South and Triangular Cooperation...
Discussion
Do Big Projects Deliver Effective Solutions in a Complex World?
Posted on 29/03/2025 by Ram Khanal Drawing from evaluations of over 30 development and climate resilience projects across Asia and Africa, a recurring theme has emerged: the scale and...
Discussion
Evaluating Agri-Food Systems Transformation Policies and Regulations
Posted on 31/01/2025 by Mireille TOTOBESOLA Context: Transforming agri-food systems to become more sustainable, resilient, and equitable is an urgent global priority. Agrifood System...
Technical Paper
What Are We Assessing When We Measure Food Security? A Compendium and Review of Current Metrics
Issued on 2013 by American Society for Nutrition The appropriate measurement of food security is critical for targeting food and economic aid; supporting early famine warning and global monitoring...
Report
EVALUATION OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION PROGRAMS IN HARARE
Issued on 2025 by Flames and Lilies Climate Initiative Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) has emerged as a critical field of study and practice, particularly in regions like Zimbabwe, which faces significant...
Event
CGIAR Science Week: innovation and partnerships for a food, nutrition, and climate secure-future
Nairobi & online, - CGIAR Science Week: innovation and partnerships for a food, nutrition, and climate secure-future When humanity has faced its greatest challenges...
Guidance Document
A Guide to Capturing Lessons Learned
Issued by The Nature Conservancy Conservation A Guide to Capturing Lessons Learned
Guidance Document
The Basics of Project Implementation. A Guide for Project Managers
Issued by CARE This manual focuses specifically on the project implementation phase for field-based managers
Blog
The Effectiveness of Multi-stakeholder Platforms Towards Building of a Knowledge Delivery Infrastructure: Lessons from TAAT Implementation Framework
Posted on 12/12/2024 by Rachel Zozo, Atayi Ezekiel Opaluwah The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is a unique initiative funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to overcome...
Discussion
Evaluating Scaling Efforts: Measuring What Matters
Posted on 04/12/2024 by Hezekiah Agwara Dear colleagues, We need to talk about scaling. Evaluators working in food security, agriculture, rural development, climate change, and other areas...
Blog
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!
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...
Blog
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.
Evaluation Synthesis
Evidence pathways to gender equality and food systems transformation
This paper presents 9 critical lessons to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment and transform our food systems, drawing from 47 independent...
Evaluation Synthesis
Evidence Summary on COVID-19 and Food Security
This evidence summary published by UNEG (United Nations Evaluation Group) and summarized by EvalForward in a brief, looks at the findings, good...
Blog
Do school feeding and education play a role in keeping girls safe?
Posted on 08/12/2020 by Catrina Perch, Niamh O'Grady When schools were closed during a five-month period of lockdown in Kenya this year, almost 4,000 schoolgirls became pregnant in one county alone.
Blog
Resilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence
Posted on 19/10/2020 by Hanna Paulose, Jonas Leo Heirman, Paul Christian, Chloe Fernandez In 2019, the world recorded 135 million "acutely food-insecure people in crisis or worse". More than three quarters of them lived in countries...
Report
Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020
This year marks the 10-year countdown to the end-date of the 2030 Agenda. According to the data contained in the FAO report, collected before the...
Blog
How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel
Posted on 21/09/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana and Tim Njagi, shared...
Brief
Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector
Issued on 2020 by FAO The Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector carried out by the Office of Evaluation of FAO with EvalForward aimed at...