Evaluation at FAO

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Strengthening Global Health Security: Ten Countries, Ten Success Stories
21/01/2026

Ten case studies show how FAO’s support to the Global Health Security Agenda is driving multisectoral collaboration and disease preparedness across...

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From the World Food Forum to EvalforEarth: How evaluation fuels agrifood system transformation
07/11/2025

Rome’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters pulsed with energy this October when the 2025 World Food Forum (WFF) opened its doors. The...

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EvalforEarth Discussion - Beyond the final report: What does it take to communicate evaluation well?
22/10/2025

This discussion aims to reflect on the opportunities and barriers to embedding communication throughout the evaluation process. By exploring real-world...

Watch: Evaluation of FAO’s Country Portfolio in Somalia

The evaluation of FAO’s Country Programme in Somalia covered the work of FAO Somalia from 2018 to 2022 to assess the overall contribution to FAO priority areas. It focused on the relevance of the FAO programme in responding to needs and priorities in Somalia, FAO contributions to the country programming framework priority areas, and organizational performance.

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Learning from evaluations of FAO's work in Africa 2022–2025 – Evaluation sysnthesis
03/2026

This synthesis draws on 58 evaluations conducted by the FAO Office of Evaluation in Africa between 2022 and 2025, complemented by a portfolio analysis...

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Evaluation of the project "Increasing capacities and scale for anticipatory action including through social protection systems"
02/2026

The final evaluation of this project reviewed a three-year FAO-DG ECHO partnership (2021–2024) that aimed to integrate anticipatory action (AA) with...

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Terminal evaluation of the project "Contributing to Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting by Demonstrating the Land Degradation Neutrality Approach"
02/2026

The evaluation, conducted from September 2024 to March 2025, assessed performance against the following evaluation criteria: relevance, coherence, efficiency,...

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Evaluation of the project "Mexico - CARICOM - FAO Initiative, Cooperation for Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the Caribbean"
02/2026

The evaluation concluded that the project fostered essential conditions leading to small-scale early improvements and successfully facilitating access...

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Cluster evaluation of FAO resilience activities in Yemen 2018–2024
01/2026

The evaluation examined FAO’s contributions in four thematic areas: natural resources management, agriculture, livestock and governance, within the...

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Evaluation of FAO’s work in South Sudan 2016–2023
12/2025

FAO is well positioned to play a more strategic role across the HDP nexus in South Sudan, given its technical mandate, field presence and partnerships....