This decentralized evaluation is focused on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Iraq Country Office¡¯s work supporting adaptive solutions for asset creation and improved food systems, while strengthening community capacities to manage shocks and stressors under Strategic Outcome 2. The key programmatic focus is livelihood support, asset creation and climate adaptation activities in Iraq, covering the implementation period from January 2022 to February 2026.
The terms of reference (TOR) aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.
Annual Country Reports (ACR) are a key accountability document produced by country offices on a yearly basis which inform donors how their funds were used during the reporting year. Their purpose is to tell Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s performance story in an accurate, transparent and evidence-based manner by assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of our operations in our pursuit towards zero hunger.
Derived from UN and Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) standards, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic and policy direction on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) comes from the Executive Director¡¯s circular on PSEA, as updated in May 2023. This complements the direction on PSEA set out in Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic plan for 2022¨C2025. This strategic evaluation assessed the efforts of Â鶹ÊÓƵ toward PSEA from March 2017 to October 2023 to understand what has worked well, and where efforts can be further strengthened.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Iraq Country Office and covers the ¡®Livelihood Support, Asset Creation and Climate Adaptation Activities in Iraq from 2020 to 2021¡¯. It was carried out in 2022.
The evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next country strategic plan (CSP) for Iraq. The evaluation covered all Â鶹ÊÓƵ activities implemented between 2017 and October 2023, exploring Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic positioning and relevance, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s effectiveness in contributing to the strategic outcomes, the efficiency of the implementation and the factors explaining Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s performance.
An entire generation of school-aged children and youth risk facing the ripple effects of the COVID crisis over their entire lifetime. Family income losses in combination with lack of access to education and health, and increased food insecurity have contributed to the rise in the number of school- aged children and youth facing acute hardship.
In the MENA region, Anticipatory action is rapidly gaining momentum. This report summarizes the findings of a Â鶹ÊÓƵ-commissioned project that establishes a baseline of AA capacities and experiences in the MENA region.
This report explores the prices of food items in Iraq in relation to a myriad of factors that govern the purchasing power of Iraqis and help shed some light on the food consumption and nutrition trends in the country.
This report explores district conflict drivers, and connections to (lacking) access to resources, livelihoods, and climate change, to inform resilience programming that builds upon entry points for local-level social cohesion.
This report explores district conflict drivers, and connections to (lacking) access to resources, livelihoods, and climate change, to inform resilience programming that builds upon entry points for local-level social cohesion.
The evaluation was concerned with Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s use of digital technologies and data over the period 2014 to mid-2021, in environments that are constrained in terms of humanitarian access or where there are important physical, social or political obstacles to the deployment of digital technologies. It was framed around the four interrelated components of a system including technology, people, policies and processes, and partnerships.
