In recent years there has been increased interest in evaluating the impact of development projects. However there has been a gap regarding food security related projects. FAO, with support from the EC-FAO programme, has thus organized a workshop on methods for evaluating the impact of food security related programmes.

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Outputs:

• Produce impact evaluation guidelines for food security programmes
• Write a workshop report that outlines the major gaps, methodological constraints and the best way of addressing issues
• Inform the creation of a Food Security Impact Evaluation Programme in FAO by identifying:  appropriate methods and practices; how to efficiently target effort and resources; and external partners.

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Objectifs

• Discuss quantitative methods for evaluating the impact of food security programmes. This includes learning from empirical methods used in programmes in Latin America and Africa.
• Identify the methodological challenges and gaps in assessing impact on food security
• Promote scientific debate on the topic by discussing state-of-the-art approaches to impact evaluation in areas related to food security

Contacts

Formations connexes

Featured resource:

• Impact Assessment of Large Scale Food Security Programmes (E-learning course from FAO)

Presenters highlighted the following external courses:

• MSc in Impact Evaluation for Development (University of East Anglia)
• Impact Evaluation for Evidence-Based Policy in Development (Short Course)

Documents

Liens

• WORKSHOP REPORT
• Smoke and Mirrors: Evidence of Microfinance Impact from an Evaluation of SEWA Bank in India
• Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and the Cognitive Development
• Evaluating interventions designed to link smallholders to high-value food markets (1 MB)
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
• Measuring the Impact of Food Assistance Programmes: Insights from WPP's experience