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.
Topics: Food Security
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...
Event
Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19
online, AVANTI and EvalForward will host an e-Panel discussion on “Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19” on Tuesday 21 July...
Blog
Global development indicators are not just numbers
Posted on 13/07/2020 by Olivier Cossée On July 13th, the 2020 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World was presented by its authors - FAO, IFAD, WHO, WFP and UNICEF...
Evaluation Synthesis
Lessons from Evaluations: Responding to Food Security during Covid 19
Under the framework of the Covid-19 Evaluation Coalition, Global Affairs Canada, FAO, IFAD, WFP and other agencies identified key lessons that should...
Discussion
How can evaluation help improve data quality and policies on food security during Covid-19 pandemic?
Posted on 18/05/2020 by Tim Njagi There has been a huge constraint in collecting data due to Covid-19 pandemic: depending on countries situation, data on food production, prices, trade...
Blog
Evaluation in the age of big data: Opportunities and challenges in agriculture and food security
Posted on 16/04/2020 by Michael Bamberger Most evaluations require adjusting methodology to real-world constraints, whether they be economic, technical, organizational, political, or related...
Blog
Measuring resilience-building in Karamoja, Uganda
Posted on 04/02/2020 by Rebecca Pietrelli I was recently involved in a mid-term evaluation of a multi-agency 2016-2020 programming to enhance resilience in Karamoja, the least-developed region...
Event
EvalForward webinar on the revised evaluation criteria
Online, - EvalForward is organising the webinar: Evaluation criteria: what's new and what changes for agriculture and food security? 12 February 2020 15:00 - 16...
e-learning
Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
Free e-learning course of 3 hours developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the World Food...
Blog
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 Proceedings
Investing in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities.
This brief summarizes the WFP event Investing in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities held during the EvalMENA Conference...
Blog
What are your evaluation challenges?
Posted on 05/11/2018 by Hynda Habchi Krachni The latest discussion in the EvalForward CoP covered challenges that evaluations encounter in the agriculture, rural development and food security...