Mid-term evaluation of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics

Mid-term evaluation of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics

Executive summary. March 2016

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 14 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) This report is an evaluation of the project “Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics”, which is a comprehensive framework for improving and ensuring the sustainability of statistics in agriculture, livestock, aquaculture, small-scale fisheries and forestry production in developing countries. To implement the Global Strategy, a five-year Global Action Plan (GAP) was developed to strengthen statistical capacities in 90 countries – 40 in Africa, 20 in Asia-Pacific, 20 in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), five in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and five in the Near East. The mid-term evaluation (MTE) assessed the progress made toward the Global Strategy’s outcome and outputs at the global, regional and country levels, and made recommendations based on the evaluation team’s findings. It also assessed the impact of the funding gap on the sustainability of the Global Strategy. In addition to global activities, the MTE focused on activities in Africa and Asia-Pacific because most of the funding and implementation of planned activities have focused on these regions.

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