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Background and introduction IFAD's independent Office of Evaluation conducted the final evaluation of the Rural Development Project for the Northeastern Provinces (PRODERNEA) in Argentina in 2008....

Executive summary Introduction Evaluation objectives, methodology and process. The Office of Evaluation (OE) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) undertook the Country...

This is the sixth Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI) produced by the Office of Evaluation (OE). The ARRI report consolidates and synthesizes the results and impact of...

Completion evaluation Introduction Background The mountain areas in Albania cover 70 per cent of the country's territory and have a considerably higher incidence of poverty than the lowland coastal...

Completion evaluation Introduction The Southern Region Cooperatives Development and Credit Project (SOCODEP) was undertaken in the Southern Region of Ethiopia between 1994 and 2005. This document...

Completion Evaluation Introduction The economy The Apuseni Development Project (ADP) was designed and became effective at a time when Romania was still experiencing the aftershocks of the breakup...

Background In 2007/2008, IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted a Country Programme Evaluation (CPE) in Pakistan. The main objectives of the CPE were to: (i) assess the performance and impact...

The evaluation process IFAD's Office of Evaluation undertook a country programme evaluation in Morocco with three main objectives: (i) to evaluate the quality of the strategy pursued by IFAD since...

A. Background The Office of Evaluation (OE) undertook a country programme evaluation (CPE) in Brazil in 2007. The main objective of the CPE was to assess the performance and impact of IFAD...

Completion evaluation The core learning partnership and the users of the evaluation In 2006/2007, IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted a completion evaluation of the Apuseni Development...

Completion evaluation Introduction In 2007, IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted a project completion evaluation of the Dir Area Support Project (DASP). This was the first evaluation by OE of...

The Government of Belize (GoB), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) co-financed the Community-initiated Agriculture and Resource...

Extract of Agreement at Completion Point Background and core learning partnership The Southern Region Cooperatives Development and Credit Project (SOCODEP) was one of the first significant...

Interim evaluation Introduction Burkina Faso is a land-locked country in West Africa with a population of 13.6 million, of which 81 per cent live in rural areas. In 2006, GDP per capita was US$1...

Objectives, process and core learning partnership An interim evaluation of the Community-based Rural Development Project 1 (PNGT2) was conducted by IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) at the end of...

Completion evaluation Country background Physical and social features. Belize is a country of 22 965 km², located in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Mexico. The...

This is the fifth Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI) prepared by the Office of Evaluation (OE). It synthesizes the main results and impacts from the 15 IFAD-funded...

Executive summary Introduction At its eighty-ninth session in December 2006, the Executive Board requested the Office of Evaluation (OE) to undertake a Country Programme Evaluation (CPE) in...

Executive summary A. Introduction In December 2005, at its eighty sixth session, IFAD's Executive Board requested the Office of Evaluation (OE) to undertake a Country Programme Evaluation (CPE)...

IFAD's assistance to Morocco. Since 1979, IFAD has financed nine projects in Morocco for a total of US$146.3 million in loans on intermediate terms. The total cost of projects cofinanced by IFAD in...

Interim Evaluation Introduction The interim evaluation of the Development of the Puno-Cusco Corridor Project, was carried out between March and August 2006.1 This was the sixth project implemented...

Completion evaluation The Core Learning Partnership and the users of the evaluation1 The Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) carried out a completion...

Completion evaluation Introduction The population of the Republic of Colombia is 45.6 million (2005), of which 23 per cent live in rural areas. The country's economy is the fifth largest in Latin...

Completion Evaluation Introduction Country background The United Republic of Tanzania is a country with 38 million inhabitants. In 2005, around 75 per cent of the population lived in rural areas,...

Completion Evaluation Introduction Evaluation objectives and procedure. The completion evaluation of the Niger Special Country Programme – Phase II (PSN-II) was conducted by the IFAD Office of...

The Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM) project design was highly relevant to the needs of the targeted communities. The substantial support for indigenous processes and...

Corporate-level evaluation Introduction This Agreement at Completion Point (ACP) was drawn up at the end of the Corporate-level Evaluation (CLE) of IFAD's Rural Finance Policy (RFP) and operations....

Corporate-level evaluation Rural finance. The rural poor – over 800 million people – require and use a variety of financial services. However, in most cases these services are inappropriate and...

Corporate-level evaluation Introduction In 2006/07, IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted a Corporate-level Evaluation (CLE) of the Field Presence Pilot Programme (FPPP), requested by the...

Corporate-level evaluation Introduction Background. In December 2003, at its eightieth session, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD's) Executive Board approved the three-year...

The evaluation process IFAD's Office of Evaluation has undertaken a country programme evaluation (CPE) in Mali, with three main objectives: (i) evaluate the quality of the strategy pursued by IFAD...

Extract of Agreement at Completion Point Completion evaluation Core Learning Partnership In 2006, IFAD's Office of Evaluation conducted a Completion Evaluation of the Agricultural Development...

Interim evaluation1 Core learning partnership and evaluation users The Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has conducted an interim evaluation of the...

Introduction During the period 12 – 30 September 2005, IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) fielded an Evaluation Mission (EM) to Mozambique in order to undertake the necessary field work for the...

Completion evaluation Background and Core Learning Partnership The Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM) Project targeted Indigenous communities in three provinces of the...

Completion evaluation Background In 2006, the International Fund for Agricultural Development's (IFAD) Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted a completion evaluation of the Participatory Irrigation...

Completion evaluation Evaluation approach and core learning partnership IFAD's Office of Evaluation undertook a completion evaluation of the Special Country Programme – Phase II (PSN-II) in the...

Extract of Agreement at Completion Point The Core Learning Partnership and the users of the evaluation In 2005, IFAD's Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted a completion evaluation of the Rural...

Completion evaluation 1 Introduction The economy. The ADP became effective in 1997 with the country still suffering from the abrupt withdrawal of Soviet Union capital at independence in 1991 and...

Completion evaluation Project history and design The design process started in 1991 before the peace agreement in 1992. Appraisal was done in 1993, and in April 1994, IFAD's Executive Board...

Completion evaluation Introduction Background. After Mongolia joined IFAD in 1994, discussions between the Government of Mongolia (GOM) and the Fund led to the formulation of the first...

IFAD's assistance to Mali. Since 1982, IFAD has approved ten loans for a sum of almost US$126 million, making a total of US$280 million when combined with the contributions of the Government and...

This is the fourth Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI) produced by the Office of Evaluation (OE). As in the past, the ARRI report consolidates and synthesizes the results...

Completion evaluation Introduction Background of the evaluation. The loan for the Rural Development Project of the Mayan Communities in the Yucatan Peninsula was approved by the Executive Board of...

Interim Evaluation1 The purpose of the interim evaluation mission (IEM) – required under IFAD policy – was to determine whether the programme results and impact warrant pursuing the project and, if...

Interim Evaluation Introduction In accordance with the Evaluation Policy of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted an Interim...

Interim Evaluation1 Background. PRODECOP was approved by the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in September 1996 (Loan 427-VE). The loan entered into...

Completion Evaluation1 Introduction The completion evaluation mission is conceived as an independent yet consultative exercise and designed as a service to the Southwest Anhui Integrated...

Interim Evaluation In accordance with the Evaluation Policy of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Office of Evaluation (OE) conducted an Interim Evaluation of the Upper...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) adopted its Regional Strategy in Asia and the Pacific in March 2002, which was the first time that the Fund coherently developed and...