Fabrizio Felloni

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Deputy Director

Fabrizio Felloni

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Master's in Agricultural Economics Washington State University , USA

Master-equivalent in Economic and Social Sciences Bocconi University, Italy

Fabrizio Felloni has been the IOE Deputy Director since September 2016. He was previously a Lead Evaluation Officer at IFAD and Evaluation Specialist at the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP in New York. Fabrizio develops operational policies and methodologies to enhance the independence and effectiveness of the independent evaluation function and is active in methodological development. He led the preparation of the 2022 IFAD Evaluation Manual. He contributes to divisional strategic leadership and ensures high-quality professional work by creating an enabling environment for and coaching of IOE staff, and setting quality standards for IOE outputs. He has worked on international development evaluations for over twenty years, he led and is leading corporate, country programmes as well as project-level evaluations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. He is author and co-author of several peer-reviewed publications.

Professional affiliations and distinctions Member of the American Evaluation Association Member of the American Applied Economics Association

+20 years experience in international programme evaluation

+10 years experience at the evaluation leadership level.

2016 Rome, Italy

2010 Rome, Italy

2008 New York, USA

2001 Rome, Italy

Deputy Director Independent Office of Evaluation IFAD

Lead Evaluation Officer Independent Office of Evaluation IFAD

Evaluation Specialist Independent Evaluation Office UNDP

Evaluation Officer Independent Office of Evaluation IFAD

Publications

Presentations

'Evaluation through narratives: A practical case of Participatory Narrative Inquiry in women empowerment evaluation in Niger' Evaluation 1– 20, Sage Publisher

Zucchini, E., M.Carbon, C.Bosch and F.Felloni 2022

'Combining participatory narrative methods with quantitative approaches to evaluate impact: Experiences in Cameroon and Niger', eVALUation Matters Volume 1, 2022. Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank.

Felloni, F., E.Zucchini, M.Carbon and C.Bosch 2022

'Evaluations under COVID-19: how the pandemic affected the evaluation of the performance of the Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure project in Bangladesh, and what we learned', in eVALUation Matters Volume 2

La Rovere, R., Smith, S. A., and Felloni, F. 2021

"The Potential of Value Chain Development for Transformative Change: the Experiences of AfDB and IFAD. In Van den Berg, Rob D., Cristina Magro and Marie-Hélène Adrien (eds.) Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times. Exeter, UK, IDEAS.

Felloni, F. and G.Kumbi 2021

‘Evaluations under COVID -19: how the pandemic affected the evaluation of the performance of the Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure project in Bangladesh, and what we learned’, African Development Bank

La Rovere, R., Smith, S., and Felloni, F. 2021

“Impact Evaluations in Rural Development: Opportunities and Challenges. The Emerging Experience of IFAD’s Independent Office of Evaluation”, Evaluation Matters, Second Quarter 2015, Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank.

Felloni, F., and S. Somma 2015

"La experiencia de evaluación del Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola Revista de Evaluación de Programas y Políticas Públicas, Número 3, p. 53-79

Felloni, F., A.K. Muthoo and M. Torralba 2014

"Women's Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted Children - Evidence from Nepal" , the Journal of Development Studies, Volume 43, Issue 3 April 2007, p. 456-489

Imai K., P. Eklund and F.Felloni 2007

“Forest Management Innovations, Forage Development Practices and Livestock in the Hills of Nepal”, Tropical Grasslands, vol. 39, p.152-159

Devkota, N. R., and Felloni, F. 2005

"Commercialisation de la microfinance: une expérience basée sur le modèle Grameen Bank aux Philippines", Techniques Financières et Développement, 73, p.20-27.

Felloni, Fabrizio et Hans Dieter Seibel 2003

"Trade Policy, Biotechnology and Grain Self-sufficiency in China", Agricultural Economics, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 173-186

Felloni, Fabrizio, John Gilbert, Thomas I. Wahl and Philip Wandschneider 2003

Evaluación subregional sobre el Corredor Seco Centroamericano | Principales hallazgos del reporte principal

Fabrizio Felloni, Massiel Jiménez,, Claudia Ranaboldo, 2024

Evaluating IFAD’s Engagement in pro-poor Value Chain Development

Fabrizio Felloni 2024

Evaluating the process of targeting in development projects

Dee Jupp, Chris Barnett, Jeanette Cooke, Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Harnessing opportunities from information technology for evaluation – with some caution

Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Integrating a climate perspective in evaluation

Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Synergies, collaboration between independent evaluation and evaluation by management

Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Evidence from a UN Evaluation Group Summary on Food Security During Crisis Situations

Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Learning from COVID experience: enriching data collection methods and evaluation tools

Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Building an Evaluation Culture

Indran A. Naidoo and Fabrizio Felloni 2023

Results and Evaluation Systems in Large International Organizations | 2022 European Evaluation Society Conference

Fabrizio Felloni 2022

What Role Should Evaluators Play? Reflections Around Evaluation Policies | 2022 European Evaluation Society Conference

Fabrizio Felloni 2022

Evaluating the support to value chain development for poverty reduction: approaches and tools | 2021 European Evaluation Society Conference

Fabrizio Felloni 2021

Two years of evaluations under COVID: lessons and opportunities | Asian Evaluation Week 2021

Fabrizio Felloni, Roberto LaRovere 2021