October 2020 PC 129/4

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Hundred and Twenty-ninth Session

9-13 November 2020

Indicative rolling work plan of evaluations 2021-2023

Queries on the substantive content of this document may be addressed to:

Mr Masahiro Igarashi

Director, Office of Evaluation

Tel: +39 06570 53903

Email: OED-Director@fao.org

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This document contains an indicative work plan proposed for 2021-2023, which updates the

current work plan for 2020-2022 (PC 127/6) reviewed by the Committee in 2019.

The plan for evaluations to be reviewed by the Committee comprises thematic evaluations of

FAO’s contributions to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and strategic

evaluations of corporate-level issues, including those recommended by the Committee in past

sessions. Further, a new evaluation of COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme is

proposed.

A new evaluation policy will be proposed for discussion in 2021, as well as status reports after

two years of policy implementation.

The work plan of the Office of Evaluation also includes: country programme and related

evaluations; evaluation service to programmes/projects funded by voluntary contributions;

emergency and resilience programme evaluations; backstopping of decentralized evaluations

and support to decentralized offices; activities to strengthen national evaluation capacities; and

collaboration with professional evaluation networks.

The Office proposes to periodically organize informal workshops to present and discuss

evaluations that are not reviewed by the Committee.

GUIDANCE SOUGHT FROM THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

The Programme Committee is invited to:

Comment on and endorse the proposed work plan of evaluations 2021-2023;

Comment on the proposed informal workshops and suggest topics.

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I. Introduction

1. The Office of Evaluation (OED) has been conducting evaluations under the Indicative Rolling

Work Plan 2020-2022 (PC 127/6) approved by the Committee at its 127th Session in November 2019.

The main objective of this Work Plan has been to examine FAO’s strategic positioning and

contributions to results in line with its Strategic Framework and Country Programming Frameworks

(CPFs) with a focus on FAO’s contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The plan

also presents evaluations that are more broadly aiming to assess organizational and programme

performance at various levels. This document contains an update of the Work Plan for the period

2021-2023.

2. For evaluations to be presented to the Programme Committee (Annex table 1), OED plans to

continue undertaking thematic evaluations of FAO’s contributions to SDGs, as well as strategic

evaluations looking at corporate-level issues, including those recommended by the Programme

Committee, namely evaluations of: Rome-based Agencies collaboration, South-South Cooperation,

and work on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). In addition, this plan proposes a real time evaluation of

COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, and status reports on the implementation of the new

evaluation policy and the progress made in enhancing the use of evaluation at decentralized level after

two years of policy implementation.

3. OED will continue conducting evaluations of FAO’s contributions at national level for the

Organization’s accountability to the country and for advising the Organization and the country in the

formulation of CPFs and their implementation (Annex table 2). The evaluations will whenever

possible be conducted in coordination with system-wide evaluation efforts at country level, responding

to the UN Secretary-General’s initiative to reposition the UN development system. OED will also

continue to support CPF reviews and self-evaluations conducted by decentralized offices, especially

when these inform the formulation of new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks

(UNSDCF).

4. As per current policy, OED will continue to manage final evaluations of projects funded by

voluntary contributions that have budgets over USD 4 million (Annex table 3, for main global/regional

programme or project evaluations). Starting from late 2020, some project evaluations, such as those

covering a single country, will be managed by decentralized offices with backstopping from OED.

5. Evaluations of emergency and resilience programmes comprise a large part of those

evaluations funded by voluntary contributions due to their large funding base. To effectively handle

these evaluations, which require different approaches and criteria, OED has developed a separate

evaluation plan in consultation with senior management and key stakeholders (Annex table 4).

6. OED will support the development of a decentralized evaluation system through dedicated

guidance materials and training, and, from 2021 onwards, the outposting of staff to the regions with

the aim of enhancing the use of evaluations in the countries and the regions and supporting the

conduct of decentralized evaluations.1

7. OED will seek opportunities to undertake joint, collaborative or system-wide evaluations. To

this end, through the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), OED actively engages with the

UN Secretary-General’s Office and Development Coordination Office, as well as evaluation outfits of

bilateral agencies (OECD-DAC EvalNet). It also collaborates with the humanitarian evaluation

community and entities of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), as well as national and

regional evaluation networks to enhance evaluation capacity in the countries. This includes country-

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level UN system-wide evaluations, such as UNSDCF evaluations, but also joint humanitarian

evaluations and global system-wide evaluations proposed by the UN Secretary-General.

8. To avoid the risk of overloading the Programme Committee’s agenda, OED prioritized

evaluations for the Committee to those which address corporate issues (e.g. partnership strategies,

technical cooperation programme) and those which allow the Committee to give a broad oversight and

strategic guidance to the Organization (e.g. contribution to SDGs, COVID-19 response and recovery

programme).

9. At the same time, OED conducts a number of evaluations and produces knowledge products

such as evaluation syntheses that might be of interest to the Programme Committee Members as well

as to FAO Members at large. To make an effective use of these evaluations for all those interested in,

OED proposes to start organizing periodic informal workshops to present these reports and provide a

space for discussion. In this regard, OED welcomes any suggestion on evaluations to be presented in

these workshops from those listed in Annex tables 2, 3 and 4. Suggestions on the format of the

workshop are also welcome.

II. Proposed Programme of Evaluations

A. Evaluations presented to the Governing Bodies

10. Regarding thematic evaluations of FAO’s contributions to SDGs, OED will present the second

part of the evaluation on SDG2: zero hunger at the current session. In the period 2021-2023, OED will

present evaluations of the remaining SDGs for which FAO has a leading role, with priority being

given to those that cover natural-resources aspects as these have not featured prominently in recent

thematic evaluations, namely: SDG13: climate change, SDG6: clean water and sanitation, SDG14: life

below water, SDG15: life on land, and SDG12: sustainable consumption and production. These will

be followed by those for which FAO has a major contributing role (SDG5: gender equality, SDG1: no

poverty), which will be included in the next update of the Work Plan. In particular, the evaluation of

FAO’s contribution to SDG1 will be timed to allow a fuller examination of the effects of the Director-

General’s initiatives such as the Hand-in-Hand Initiative.

11. On evaluations looking at corporate-level strategic issues, OED will present the evaluations of

the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) and of the Civil Society Partnership Strategy at the

current session. The evaluation of FAO’s role and work on Antimicrobial Resistance, the joint

evaluation of Rome-based Agencies collaboration, and the evaluation of FAO South-South

Cooperation – which were recommended or suggested by the Committee – will be presented

respectively in 2021 (spring), 2021 (autumn) and 2022 (spring).

12. Further, this Work Plan newly proposes a real time evaluation of FAO’s COVID-19 Response

and Recovery Programme, which will be conducted in stages. The Office intends to present a report to

the Committee towards the end of 2021 (autumn) aiming to document the progress made and lessons

learnt, and examine operational and coordination aspects at both global and country levels. The Office

may further propose, in the next update of the Work Plan, a second report aiming to assess results

achieved in contribution to medium-term recovery at country level, presented at an appropriate timing

in light of the evolving situation under the pandemic.

13. Following the proposal for a new FAO Evaluation Policy to be discussed at the spring session

of 2021, the Office proposes to submit status reports on the implementation of the new Evaluation

Policy and the progress made in the use of evaluation at the decentralized level, to be presented in

2023 (spring) after nearly two years of policy implementation.

14. Annex table 1 presents the proposed plan of evaluation to be submitted to the Programme

Committee for 2021-2023. For information purposes, the table also includes follow-up reports to

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previous evaluations to be submitted by Management after two years of implementing the actions

contained in the respective management responses.

B. Country Programme Evaluations

15. OED has conducted between 6-8 country-level evaluations in the period 2016-2018, as both a

mechanism to provide accountability to Members and their populations, and to serve as an opportunity

to document results, reflect on achievements and identify lessons learnt for future application.

16. The plan for country evaluations is developed in consultation with the Regional and Country

Offices. In principle, countries in the penultimate year of CPF implementation are selected. Other

factors considered during the consultations include: the strategic importance of the programme in the

view of the Regional Office, country programmes that are under-evaluated; programmes in the

countries with high needs of FAO support; and the usefulness of evaluation as an input to the

development of a new strategic direction for the programme, such as in countries with new

government administration or countries developing the system-wide UNSDCF. Given the changing

circumstances in each country, and current travel limitations, country evaluations are confirmed

generally a year in advance. Annex table 2 provides the plan of country programme evaluations as it

currently stands.

17. In addition, OED liaises with Regional Offices to discuss modalities for the provision of

evaluation services to decentralized offices interested in conducting self-evaluations or reviews of

their country programmes.

C. Evaluations of programme/projects funded by voluntary contributions

18. OED manages and quality assures evaluations of programmes and projects funded by

voluntary contributions in accordance with the policy. In 2020, including the carry-over from 2019,

OED has been conducting 49 project evaluations (31 ongoing and 18 completed) with global, regional,

and national scopes. These included evaluations of multi-country programmes such as: Information on

Nutrition, Food Security and Resilience for Decision Making (INFORMED); Voluntary Guidelines on

the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food

Security (VGGT); and the Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT - phase II). Annex table 3 presents

evaluations of some major programmes or projects funded by voluntary contributions that are recently

completed, currently on-going and scheduled in the near future.

19. In 2020, OED needed to adjust its plan of and approaches to programme/project evaluations

due to the COVID-19 pandemic. OED has consulted and collaborated with project teams and donors

to identify how to best address the delays and challenges resulting from the pandemic. The evaluation

timings, processes, approaches and terms of reference were thus revised to accommodate these

challenges. For example, due to the pandemic, many projects were granted extensions, which resulted

in the postponement of evaluations. Movement restrictions also led to changes in the way evaluations

are conducted.

20. The projected number of evaluations of programmes/projects funded by voluntary

contributions is presented in the table below. Most likely, the projected figures would need to be

adjusted, especially those for 2021, due to the evolving pandemic situation. Also, starting from late

2020, some project evaluations will be managed by regional, subregional and country offices with

support from OED, as part of FAO’s efforts to strengthen evaluation capacities at the decentralized

level.

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Programme/project evaluations projected for 2020-2021 TOTAL COMPLETED ONGOING PLANNED/SCHEDULED

2020 57 18 31 8

2021 70 - 3 67

D. Emergency and resilience programme evaluations

21. FAO’s emergency and resilience programme covers over half of FAO’s field programmes and

is a major contributor to the trust fund that finances evaluations of voluntary contributions. The

evaluation of FAO’s emergency and resilience programmes thus contributes to the overall FAO

accountability and learning agenda.

22. Humanitarian assistance is normally delivered under tight logistical and time constraints, so

are their evaluation activities. These evaluations need to give special attention to humanitarian

principles and apply evaluation criteria of different dimensions from those applied to development

projects – for instance by looking at the appropriateness of actions under prevailing security situations,

protection of vulnerable populations in crisis situations, impartial delivery of support to all affected

populations, and the application of the “do no harm” principle. These evaluations also often encounter

unexpected challenges, mainly of a logistical or security nature, and thus require specific expertise in

their design and management. OED, therefore, has established a team of evaluation managers to

implement a separate plan of emergency and resilience programme evaluations, presented in Annex

table 4. The plan is composed of ‘cluster’ (clustering projects addressing the same crisis), thematic,

real-time and inter-agency evaluations.

23. In selecting topics for evaluation, the plan seeks to ensure coverage of all major emergency

and resilience programmes implemented in response to crises, in particular those which the IASC has

declared Scale-Up activations to which FAO has adhered to. In addition, some country-level

evaluations where FAO’s work is mostly of an emergency nature are included in this plan.

24. OED is an active member of the Steering and Management Groups of the Inter-Agency

Humanitarian Evaluations (IAHEs) and undertakes joint evaluations with UN Agencies as well as

other members outside of the UN system.

25. On-going emergency and resilience programme evaluations include a thematic evaluation of

FAO’s role and work on the humanitarian – development – peace nexus; and, in response to the FAO

Director-General’s request, a real-time evaluation of the Desert Locusts response. In the pipeline for

2021-2022, are evaluations of the resilience programmes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and

in South Sudan, together with thematic evaluations of FAO’s cash transfer and cash-plus work, and

FAO’s work on forced migration. The full plan is presented in Annex table 4.

III. Other Activities of the Office of Evaluation

26. In addition to conducting evaluations, OED undertakes a number of activities to discharge its

mandate and to maximize its contribution to the goals of the Organization and the international

community.

E. Collaboration through United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)

27. OED is an active member of UNEG, which brings together the evaluation functions of 57

member and observer organizations. UNEG’s objectives are to: 1) develop and safeguard professional

norms, standards and guidance; 2) enhance professionalization and capacity; and 3) influence policy-

making and operational work through evaluations. In 2020, OED contributed to organizing and

participated in the annual UNEG Evaluation Week, held virtually for the first time ever. OED also

co-led several inter-agency working groups and initiatives, and contributed to organizing the first

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Partnership Forum between UNEG and the OECD-DAC EvalNet, which strengthened relations

between UNEG members and evaluation offices of bilateral donor agencies.

28. In March 2020, OED Director was elected as UNEG Chair for the period 2020-2022 and is

expected to exert leadership for and proactively participate in the work of this inter-agency network. In

the period 2020-2021, OED will continue to participate in inter-agency working groups on such topics

as: evaluation methods; peer reviews; human rights and gender equality; capacity development;

national evaluation capacity; evaluating policy influence; System-Wide Evaluations and evaluations of

country-level UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks.

F. Collaboration with other evaluation networks

29. Building on the collaboration with UNEG, OED has contributed to the work of the COVID-19

Global Evaluation Coalition2, which is made up of the evaluation units of national government

agencies, UN organisations and multilateral institutions. The Coalition aims at providing credible

evidence to inform international cooperation supporting non-clinical responses to and recovery from

the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries, thus helping to ensure lessons are learned and the

global development community delivers on its promises. OED, together with the evaluation offices of

the Rome-based Agencies and interested OECD-DAC Members, contributed to the development of a

lessons note on “Responding to food security during COVID-19”, which was presented at a meeting of

Development Cooperation Ministers held in June 2020.

G. National evaluation capacity development

30. In 2014, the UN General Assembly in its Resolution 69/237 called upon entities of the UN

development system to support the strengthening of national capacities for the evaluation of

development activities at country level. To realize Agenda 2030, it is essential that national institutions

have the capacity to assess contributions of national policies and programmes to SDGs. To this end,

OED has supported the strengthening of evaluation capacities of national counterparts through its

country-level evaluation work and the EvalForward Community of Practice.

31. For instance, OED has been making significant efforts to involve national evaluators and

stakeholders as team members, advisors or key informants in its evaluation work. This has enhanced

the relevance of evaluations by maximizing the use of local knowledge and perspectives, and fostered

evaluation capacities that can be relied upon in the future. The significance of these gains became

apparent with the restrictions of international travel under the pandemic situation, which have led to an

even greater use of national evaluation capacities.

32. EvalForward – the Community of Practice on Evaluation for Agriculture, Food Security and

Rural Development, jointly supported by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP since 2018 –

has been another important channel to develop evaluation culture and capacities amongst practitioners

in developing countries. Facilitating knowledge exchanges, awareness raising and networking, the

Community has a membership of over 900 evaluators, decision makers and academics in 98 countries

and offers its services in English, French and Spanish.

33. OED plans to further its efforts towards developing national evaluation capacities, by

continuing to engage national evaluations and stakeholders, and support EvalForward. OED may also

undertake targeted projects to respond to needs expressed by national counterparts. These efforts will

be carried out in synergy with FAO’s efforts to strengthen its decentralized evaluation function.

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H. Communication – sharing the knowledge and promoting dialogue

34. Communication and knowledge sharing are a key component of OED’s work. Effective

communication requires delivering the right information at the right timing in the right format to the

right audience, and promoting dialogues therefrom. It allows the results of evaluation to be known by a

broader audience, and contributes to enhancing their use in designing and implementing the

Organization’s activities.

35. OED’s communication strategy aims to enhance utility and visibility of its evaluations. It

provides the principles underlying OED communication work, and identify the objectives and the

priority areas of work for the next few years, which include the development of guidelines to promote

systematic approaches to communicating with stakeholders during the process of conducting an

evaluation, identification of demands for knowledge products such as synthesis reports, organization

of learning and knowledge exchange events or workshops. In addition, OED plans to improve its

online presence through updating and further developing the website in order to make evaluation

reports and findings easier to access and use.

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ANNEX

Table 1. Evaluations and associated reports for the Programme Committee

Session of the Committee and evaluations to be presented Year(s) conducted

Autumn 2020 session

Evaluation of FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme 2019 – 2020

Evaluation of FAO role and positioning in the UN system in support to zero hunger

(SDG2)

2019 – 2020

Evaluation of FAO’s civil society partnership strategy 2019 – 2020

Indicative Rolling Work Plan of Evaluations 2021-2023

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s contribution to integrated natural resource

management for sustainable agriculture (SO 2)

Spring 2021 session

Evaluation of FAO’s support to climate action (SDG13) and the implementation of

FAO Strategy on Climate Change

2020 – 2021

Evaluation of FAO’s role and work on Antimicrobial Resistance 2020 – 2021

Proposal for a new FAO Evaluation Policy

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s nutrition strategy

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s work on gender

Autumn 2021 session

Real time Evaluation of FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme 2020 – 2021

Joint evaluation on collaboration among the Rome-based Agencies 2020 – 2021

Indicative Rolling Work Plan of evaluations (update)

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s Strategic Results Framework

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s strategy for partnerships with private

sector

Spring 2022 session

Evaluation of FAO’s support to clean water and sanitation (SDG6) 2021 – 2022

Evaluation of FAO’s south-south cooperation 2021 – 2022

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s support to zero hunger (SDG2)

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s work in statistics

Autumn 2022 session

Evaluation of FAO’s support to life on land (SDG15) 2021 – 2022

Evaluation of FAO’s support to life below water (SDG14) 2021 – 2022

Indicative Rolling Work Plan of evaluations 2023-2025

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Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO role and positioning in the UN system in

support to zero hunger (SDG2)

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s civil society partnership strategy

Spring 2023 session

Evaluation of FAO’s support to sustainable consumption and production (SDG12) 2022 – 2023

Implementation of the new FAO evaluation policy and the progress made in the

use of evaluation at decentralized level

Follow-up report on evaluation of FAO’s support to climate action (SDG13) and the

implementation of FAO Strategy on Climate Change

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Table 2. Country Programme Evaluations and related evaluations

The table includes evaluations conducted in territories or for group of countries.

Evaluation title and status Expected publication date

Africa

Completed

Country Programme Evaluation for Uganda 2020

Country Programme Evaluation for Sierra Leone 2020

Country Programme Evaluation for Ethiopia 2020

Ongoing

The CPF Review in Eritrea (conducted by the Country Office with OED guidance and support)

2021

Planned

Country Programme Evaluation for Chad 2021

Asia & the Pacific

Completed

Country Programme Evaluation for Indonesia 2020

Ongoing

Country Programme Evaluation for Afghanistan 2021

Multi-Country Programme Evaluation for the Pacific Islands 2021

Planned

Country Programme Evaluation for Iran 2022

Country Programme Evaluation for Nepal 2022

Country Programme Evaluation for the Philippines 2023

Near East

Completed

Country Programme Evaluation for Lebanon 2020

Country Programme Evaluation for Tunisia 2020

Country Programme Evaluation for the Syrian Arab Republic 2020

Evaluation of the Sub-regional Office for North Africa 2020

Ongoing

Country Programme Evaluation for Morocco 2021

Country Programme Evaluation for the Sudan 2021

Planned

Country Programme Evaluation for Jordan 2021/2022

Country Programme Evaluation for Mauritania 2021/2022

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Evaluation of the Sub-regional Office for Gulf Countries 2022/2023

Country Programme Evaluation for Saudi Arabia 2022/2023

Country Programme Evaluation for Iraq 2023/2024

Latin America & Caribbean

Completed

Country Programme Evaluation for Colombia 2020

Ongoing

Evaluation of the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021

Planned

Country Programme Evaluation for Guatemala 2021

Evaluation of the Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean 2021

Country Programme Evaluation for the Dominican Republic 2022

Country Programme Evaluation for Bolivia 2022

Country Programme Evaluation for Paraguay 2023

Country Programme Evaluation for El Salvador 2023

Europe and Central Asia

Completed

Country Programme Evaluation for Armenia 2020

Ongoing

Country Programme Evaluation for Moldova 2021

Planned

Country Programme Evaluation for Serbia 2021

Country Programme Evaluation for Uzbekistan 2022

Country Programme Evaluation for Azerbaijan 2023

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Table 3. Selected global/regional programme or project evaluations

The table is not an exhaustive list of project/programme evaluations and excludes emergency and resilience evaluations provided in table 4.

Evaluation title and status Expected publication date

Global programme/project

Completed

Evaluation of Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CDAIS)

June 2020 (published)

Food and Nutrition Security, Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation (FIRST) Programme

Oct. 2020

Ongoing

Evaluation of Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies II (MAFAP II)

May 2021

Evaluation of Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) July 2021

Planned

Evaluation of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Programme phase III

Dec. 2021

Evaluation of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Dec. 2021

Regional programme/project

Completed

Evaluation of Global Sustainable Fisheries Management and Biodiversity Conservation in the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ)

Aug. 2020 (published)

Evaluation of Asia Regional Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Pesticide Risk Reduction (PRR) Programme in the Greater Mekong Sub-region

Feb. 2020 (published)

Ongoing

Evaluation of FAO contribution to the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure (VGGT) – for countries benefitting from German funding

Jan. 2021

Evaluation of Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition in selected countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia

Jan. 2021

Planned

Evaluation of Mesoamerica without Hunger Programme: More effective institutional frameworks to improve family farming, and food and nutritional security

Dec. 2021

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Table 4. Emergency and resilience programme evaluations

Evaluation title and status Expected publication date

Major programme evaluations

Completed

Evaluation of FAO’s work on emerging pandemic threats Nov. 2020

Evaluation of Information on Nutrition, Food Security and Resilience for

Decision Making (INFORMED)

Oct. 2020

Ongoing

Evaluation of FAO’s resilience programme in South Sudan Oct. 2021

Planned

Evaluation of FAO’s resilience programme in Democratic Republic of the

Congo

Oct. 2021/2022

Evaluation of FAO’s resilience programme in Somalia Mar. 2022

Cluster evaluations (clustered by crisis)

Completed

Evaluation of FAO’s contribution to building resilience to El Niño--induced

drought in Southern Africa 2016-2017

Jan. 2020 (published)

Evaluation of the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan in Lebanon, Jordan

and Turkey

Sep. 2020

Evaluation of the Lake Chad Basin Strategy Sep. 2020

Cluster evaluation of land reclamation projects in Colombia Sep. 2020

Review of the emergency response to the surge declaration in Yemen Sep. 2020

Ongoing

Evaluation of FAO’s work with the Peace Building Fund 2021

Planned

Evaluation of the Pro-Resilience Action (ProAct) country investment projects and

the Global Network Programme Dec. 2021

Evaluation of FAO response to the Cyclone Idai in Mozambique Dec. 2021

Thematic evaluations

Ongoing

Evaluation of FAO’s role and work in the humanitarian – development –

peace nexus

Nov. 2020

Planned

Evaluation of FAO’ cash transfer and cash-plus programmes Jan. 2022

Evaluation of FAO’s work on forced migration Dec. 2022

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Real-time evaluations

Ongoing

Real-Time Evaluation of FAO’s Response to Desert Locust Upsurge (three

phases)

July 2021

Inter-agency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs)

Completed

IAHE of the drought response in Ethiopia 2015-2018 2020

IAHE on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls 2020

IAHE of the response to the Cyclone Idai in Mozambique 2021

Planned

IAHE on the humanitarian – development - peace nexus 2022