As climate shocks intensify and aid budgets shrink, development and humanitarian agencies need clear evidence to show what works to build resilience and reduce poverty.
This report presents the findings of a rigorous impact evaluation conducted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Office of Evaluation (OEV), in partnership with the World Bank¡¯s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department, focused on anticipatory cash transfers in response to severe flooding in Bangladesh.
This annual report outlines progress made towards implementing Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Impact Evaluation Strategy in 2025. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Corporate Evaluation Strategy 2022 institutionalizes the Impact Evaluation Strategy (2019-2026) as part of the normative framework for the overall evaluation function. The Strategic Advisory Panel (SAP) plays a key role in providing external experience as Â鶹ÊÓƵ implements the Impact Evaluation Strategy, fine-tuning its progress in light of evolving external contexts and emerging lessons.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Office of Evaluation and the International Security and Development Centre (ISDC) conducted a large-scale impact evaluation from January 2024 to February 2025 comparing the performance of four different targeting methods in Lebanon.
Haiti faces severe food insecurity and gender inequality, with nearly half the population lacking adequate food and women especially vulnerable. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Food Assistance for Assets (FFA), also referred to as a cash for work programme, provided conditional cash transfers linked to community asset creation, with one variant specifically targeting women. A cluster randomized trial across 78 localities assessed impacts on food security and women¡¯s economic empowerment.
This impact evaluation examines the impacts of women¡¯s participation in Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programme in Kenya, where participants received cash transfers in return, on key outcomes including food security, consumption, time use, empowerment, intra-household agency and gender dynamics, and measures of wellbeing.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Â鶹ÊÓƵ, FAO, and UNICEF have jointly worked to strengthen the socioeconomic resilience of smallholder farmers and vulnerable populations in North and South Kivu under Phase I of the BMZ-funded Joint Resilience Programme.
Between 2020 and 2023, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Rwanda Country Office implemented the Sustainable Market Alliance and Asset Creation for Resilient Communities and Gender Transformation (SMART) programme. The programme aimed to contribute to community resilience through a package of support, including a stronger soil and water management asset base, livelihood strengthening and diversification, farmer organization capacity strengthening and access to inputs and markets, and social cohesion and gender transformation activities.
The Guatemala Â鶹ÊÓƵ country office, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Agriculture, has developed a smartphone app (the School Feeding Management Application or SFMA), which aims to connect schools and registered suppliers to facilitate the procurement process from local suppliers of the Guatemalan school meal programme.
This report presents the findings of a rigorous impact evaluation conducted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Office of Evaluation (OEV), in partnership with the World Bank¡¯s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department, focused on anticipatory cash transfers in response to severe flooding in Nepal.
In 2022-2023, Â鶹ÊÓƵ worked with partners to test a new commodity voucher procurement model for the school feeding programme in three provinces in Burundi.
Three years after the launch of the Window, this brief presents some of the main emerging findings from five experimental impact evaluations in The Gambia, Jordan, Burundi, Guatemala and Malawi.
The impact evaluation is intended to estimate the impacts of the UNICEF-Â鶹ÊÓƵ joint resilience programme on absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience capacities.
The impact evaluation contributes to the Office of Evaluation's Climate & Resilience impact evaluation window. Also, through this impact evaluation, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and DIME are working together to complement other ongoing efforts and to guide future investments and activities related to resilience in The Sahel.
