Topics: Rural development

Emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) face a historic investment opportunity: delivering USD 7.5 trillion annually of investment to...

In order to meet the demands of a growing global population, agriculture needs to produce about 50 percent more food, feed and fibre by 2050 compared...

The purpose of Transforming food and agriculture through a systems approach is to clarify what a systems approach involves in practice across agrifood...

The "Guidelines for the Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Cooperation Framework" were developed by the United Nations Evaluation Group...

This knowledge review synthesises evidence on NUS in the following areas: NUS’s contribution to food security Nutritional benefit of NUS Consumer...

A Literature Review on Frameworks and Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture

The Paper is based (i) on a review of the M&E systems across the 74 World Bank-supported agricultural and rural development (ARD) projects, that were...

Strengthening the professional capacity of UN evaluators to design and manage evaluations is a central objective of the United Nations Evaluation...

As we cross the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and amidst stalled progress on achieving gender equality, the independent...

There are constant and growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to demands from internal and external...

Development projects, research initiatives and innovative organizational efforts require evaluations that can confirm outcomes and inform their...

This resource guide is one of a series of four developed to support researchers in international development with key monitoring, evaluation and...

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a methodology that enables the analysis of multiple cases in complex situations. It can help explain why...

Contribution analysis is a methodology used to identify the contribution a development intervention has made to a change or set of changes. The aim is...

The term co-benefits refers to additional positive impacts of a policy or intervention, beyond its primary objectives. In the case of natural resource...

Nature-based solutions (NbS)1 represent an overarching concept that provides approaches to simultaneously tackle the interconnected challenges of...

The evaluation portfolio includes 277 projects (i.e., 44 closed, 153 ongoing, 80 at CEO endorsement stage) from GEF-5 to GEF-8, covering more than 140...