Discussion
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...
Topics: Monitoring & Evaluation
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...
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.
Blog
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...
Blog
Adapting evaluations to the needs of decision-makers: the case of Benin
Posted on 24/02/2022 by Elias Akpé Kuassivi Segla Self-evaluation and internal evaluation. One of the lessons shared during the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) session on national evaluation...
Blog
The proof of the pudding is in the eating: five lessons for developing national evaluation capacity
Posted on 31/01/2022 by Miguel Angel Lombardo Chico, Emmanuel M. DAVID-GNAHOUI Countries’ capacity to evaluate development programmes is key to supporting the real ownership of development outcomes and to strengthening the role...
Blog
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
The road ahead: Evaluators must promote learning for adaptive development processes
Posted on 03/06/2021 by Masahiro Igarashi As evaluators, we are faced with the growing complexity of the times in which we live and the challenge of making our mark on development efforts to...
Blog
How best to evaluate capacity development?
Posted on 24/05/2021 by Cornelia RietdorfBlog
Insights from participatory outcome evaluation with social forest groups in Myanmar
Posted on 26/02/2021 by Binod ChapagainGuidance Document
Citizen's monitoring in forestry - Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Community Forest Groups
This toolbox, developed by RECOFTC (Restoring landscapes in Southeast Asia), is designed to support community forest groups monitor their baseline...
Book
Using Evidence in Policy and Practice – Lessons from Africa
This book, edited by Ian Goldman and Mine Pabari, explores how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and...
Report
M&E capacity-strengthening approaches and measurement in Africa
This research report by CLEAR provides an overview of National Evaluation Capacity Development (NECD) across selected Anglophone African countries and...
Discussion
How do we move forward on Evaluation Systems in the Agriculture Sector?
Posted on 29/10/2020 by Judith Katabarwa Dear EvalForward members, Agriculture is Rwanda's major economic sector. It accounts for 24 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and about 64%...
Discussion
Rapid evaluation to measure the impact of the COVID pandemic in mountainous areas
Posted on 12/10/2020 by Malika Bounfour Hello community, I work with NGOs in the mountainous areas near Marrakech and I am a member of one of them. We see the impact of the COVID pandemic on...
Event
EvalXchange - a festival of learning
Online, - EvalXchange is a new series of virtual learning events organized by the Office of Evaluation of the World Food Programme which will run every Tuesday...
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...
Guidance Document
A guide: integrating communication in evaluation
The guide explains how to use communication to support evaluation, It is structured around three broad phases of the evaluation process: before...
Discussion
How to use Knowledge Management to strengthen the impact of Evaluation on smallholder agriculture development?
Posted on 15/09/2020 by Paul Mendy Dear EvalForwad members, Knowledge management and evaluation are inter-related practices that actually feed into each other. At the Nema Chosso...
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...