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Evaluation of FAO’s Strategic Results Framework. Annex 1 - Terms of Reference









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    Evaluation of FAO’s contribution to the reduction of rural poverty through Strategic Programme 3 - Annex 2: Evaluation Terms of Reference
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    The Office of Evaluation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will conduct an evaluation of FAO’s Strategic Objective 3 (SO3): Reduce Rural Poverty1 in 2016. FAO’s support to rural poverty reduction was first included as a specific objective in the revised Strategic Framework 2010-2019 of June 2013. Prior to that, FAO’s work in rural development was included in at least five of the eleven former Strategic Objectives (e.g. B, E, F, K, L)2 The revised Strategic Fram ework was conceived with the intention of focussing on fewer and more joined-up streams of work while enhancing multi-disciplinarity and synergies across the new Strategic Objectives.
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    Evaluation of FAO Strategic Objective 1: Contribute to the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition - Annex 1. Terms of Reference
    Thematic evaluation - Annex
    2018
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    FAO’s Strategic Objective 1 (SO1) is to “contribute to the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition”. The evaluation examined the value added of SO1 to FAO’s efforts to promote food and nutrition security at the global, regional, and national levels from 2014 to 2017. It concluded that SO1 was well designed, stressed the importance of political commitment to reduce hunger and malnutrition, promoted right-based approaches in FAO’s policy support and highlighted the need to work with ministries beyond agriculture, such as ministries of finance, health or education. FAO has also worked with various Parliamentary Fronts Against Hunger, local governments and municipalities. Regional economic cooperation organizations have also been an avenue of choice through the development of regional policies and legal frameworks, “model laws” and strategies on such topics as school feeding programmes, national investment in agriculture, or crop diversification. However, a high heterogeneity was observed in the approaches followed by FAO in different countries and regions under SO1, which reflected differences in context but also betrayed insufficient communication and training efforts within FAO itself. In particular, the most innovative aspects of SO1 need to be communicated to a greater extent, especially to FAO country offices so as to inform FAO’s activities at country level. The evaluation also found a proliferation of actors, policy initiatives, approaches, coordination spaces and knowledge products in food and nutrition security, sometimes leading to confusion and competition rather than building a critical mass for sustained progress. In this context, FAO could play a greater role in policy convergence and the synthesis of multiple data streams into narratives that make sense for decision-making.

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