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What have we learnt from FAO evaluations?
Highlights from the Programme Evaluation Report 2023
The unprecedented events of the last few years – escalating conflicts, COVID-19, climate change, and rising costs – underscore the vital role of FAO in leading international efforts to tackling hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. FAO’s rapidly evolving response continues to be evaluated.
During the 2021-2022 biennium OED carried out...
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Highlights
Thematic and strategic evaluations
Evaluation costs for 2021-2022 biennium
Evaluation type | Number of evaluations | Average costs of evaluations (USD) | Total cost of evaluations (USD) |
Country programme | 9 | 152 323 | 1 370 908 |
Project | 59 | 75 666 | 4 464 268 |
Programme | 16 | 163 484 | 2 615 750 |
Thematic/Corporate | 4 | 447 425 | 1 789 698 |
Total | 88 | 10 240 624 |
Source: FAO Office of Evaluation
Note: This table presents information comparable to that available in the previous Programme Evaluation Report 2021. It is based on evaluations published in 2020-2022. Costs are being updated to include 18 evaluations conducted in the biennium but not yet published and adding approximately USD 3.5 million to the total costs.
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Programme Evaluation Report 2023
Highlights of the 103 evaluations and three syntheses of evaluations conducted by OED in the 2021–2022 biennium.