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: Rural development
Blog
Making voices count - Gathering community feedback in times of remote evaluation
Posted on 11/02/2021 by Johanna Pennarz, Prashanth KotturiDiscussion
External coherence of agriculture interventions
Posted on 23/11/2020 by Nabyouré Jean Stanislas OUEDRAOGO Dear members, I would like to share with you one of the themes I am working on at the moment. In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector is the field of...
Blog
Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture
Posted on 11/11/2020 by KOUESSI MAXIMIN ZACHARIE KODJO, Pamela Dianne White, Anne Floquet Innovations are key to improve the effectiveness of agri-food systems and better meet the rising demand for food worldwide. In particular, they are...
Blog
Evaluating business innovations in agriculture-based social enterprises
Posted on 26/10/2020 by Ravinder Kumar, Andy Frost Innovation is not about technology alone. Innovation is about the process of using ideas (novel or otherwise) in new ways and combinations, for...
Blog
Value chain approaches: reaching the very poor
Posted on 05/06/2020 by Fabrizio Felloni A value chain is the full range of activities – including design, production and distribution – required to bring a product or service from conception...
Evaluation Synthesis
Community-driven development in IFAD-supported projects
The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) has prepared an evaluation synthesis report on Community-Driven Development (CDD), based on an in...
Blog
Struggling to prove the obvious – How can evaluations show that community-driven development works?
Posted on 18/05/2020 by Johanna Pennarz Community-driven development (CDD) emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources, operating on principles of...
Blog
Young People in Agriculture – What lessons can we draw from evaluations?
Posted on 01/04/2020 by DOROTHY LUCKS Youth are becoming increasingly disconnected from the agriculture sector, despite the evidence that there have been some efforts over the years to...
Discussion
Are agriculture programs supporting women to improve their livelihood?
Posted on 10/12/2019 by Jackie (Jacqueline) Yiptong Avila Dear members, Women constitute the majority of the agricultural labour force in small-scale and subsistence farming. According to FAO, 43% of the...
Event
Table ronde: L'institutionnalisation de l'evaluation dans le secteur agricole
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, L’objet de cette table ronde est de recueillir les expériences de chacun afin de mieux cerner le rôle du Ministère de l’Agriculture dans l’évaluation...
Report
Meta-evidence review on impacts of investments in agricultural and rural development on Sustainable Development Goals 1&2
Agriculture and rural development research will play a critical role in meeting the ambitious targets under SDGs 1 and 2. In recent years there has...
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...
Blog
How can we improve the quality of development projects?
Posted on 25/07/2019 by Carlos Tarazona In rural and agricultural development, projects are the main instrument for piloting and/or implementing policies and programmes.
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...
Guidance Document
FAO Framework on Rural Extreme Poverty
The Extreme Rural Poverty Framework, launched on 18 June 2019, provides guidance for FAO’s contribution to addressing extreme poverty reduction...
e-learning
E-learning course - Understanding Rural Poverty
This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it...
Event
Join the webinar: Inclusive financial services for the rural poor
online, - The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) conducted an evaluation synthesis on inclusive financial services for the rural poor, which...
Event
Knowledge-sharing seminar on conducting Impact Evaluations of Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Security Programmes
IFAD HQ, - Growing global attention and demand for better evidence on development results in recent years has increased pressure on international development...
Blog
Dissemination of decentralized evaluation results through an innovative and participatory approach: drawings
Posted on 08/05/2019 by Giovanna Vacca When communicating with rural communities with their own dialect, WFP Colombia gets creative, with pens, paint and paper.