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...
Topics: Monitoring & Evaluation
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...
Webinar
Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19
AVANTI and EvalForward organized an e-Panel to discuss challenges and explore solutions to data quality production in the agriculture sector in the...
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...
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...
Webinar
e-Panel on Leadership and RBM in the African Agricultural Sector
This e-Panel was held on 6 May 2020 by AVANTI and EvalForward. Experts from Benin, Ghana and South Africa discussed on the importance of leadership...
Guidance Document
Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors
This Guidance Note focuses on how to design a national Monitoring & Evaluation system for tracking adaptation action, policies and plans in...
Discussion
Can we settle for evaluation alone to ensure that the SDGs are achieved?
Posted on 17/03/2020 by Mustapha Malki In recent years, evaluation has become both an essential discipline and a practice to assess the achievement of development goals around the world: an...
Guidance Document
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – Concepts, principles and tools
This guide serves as a resource for national facilitators, for project stakeholders and for other capacity development and monitoring experts to...
Discussion
The farmer as a key participant of M&E: lessons and experiences from Participatory M&E systems
Posted on 02/03/2020 by Emma Gausi Dear members, It is often bemoaned that Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) is “top-down”, donor-driven and overlooks the views and needs of the farmers who...
Blog
Evaluation practice in Africa: key trends in the landscape
Posted on 27/02/2020 by Caitlin Anna Blaser Mapitsa Evaluation trends and dynamics have an influence on our work as evaluators. But what exactly are those dynamics?
Discussion
Youth in agriculture: what lessons can we draw from evaluations?
Posted on 31/10/2019 by DOROTHY LUCKS Dear all, Most of us working in agriculture have been aware of the rising average age of farmers, both men and women. There have been efforts over the...
Event
Webinar: Use of synthesis and meta-analysis in development evaluation
Webinar, - Following EvalForward’s recent online discussion, we would like to invite you to a webinar on the use of evaluation synthesis and meta-analysis in...
Event
Learning event: 2019 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations
IFAD headquarters, Rome, Italy, - The objectives of the learning event are to share and further discuss the findings presented in the 2019 ARRI, with a particular emphasis on the 2019...
Report
EVALUATION FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
Since 2015, the world has shown great enthusiasm for the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.However, after more than four years since the launch of...
Discussion
Enhancing funding and service delivery in agriculture: any ideas?
Posted on 10/09/2019 by Christine Abong Dear members, I work as Policy Analyst at the Local Government Finance Commission in Uganda and would like to propose a discussion on the issue...
Discussion
Supporting smallhoder agriculture: what are your experiences in using evaluation?
Posted on 26/07/2019 by Richard Tinsley Dear Community of Practice, I have been working for nearly 40 years with smallholder farmers and their communities and have witnessed some recurring...
Technical Paper
Breaking the Mould. Alternative approaches to monitoring and evaluation
This paper looks at a range of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) innovations that are designed specifically to provide input to ongoing iterative...
Discussion
What can we do to improve the quality of development projects?
Posted on 15/07/2019 by Carlos Tarazona In rural and agricultural development, projects are the main instrument for piloting and/or implementing policies and programmes. When evaluating...
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...