The evaluation of Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ's country strategic plan for Uganda for 2018?2025 was conducted between November 2023 and November 2024, with the dual objective of serving both accountability and learning purposes.
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.
The evaluation finds that Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ¡¯s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative - which reached 17,835 smallholder farmers in drought-prone southern Zambia ¨C remained highly relevant over the 2014-2025 period, delivering meaningful resilience gains despite severe shocks, including COVID-19 and the 2023¨C2024 El Ni?o drought.
This decentralized end-line activity evaluation, commissioned by the Cambodia country office, is for the KOICA-supported Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) Programme in Cambodia, covering the period from March 2020 to August 2024.
The evaluation of Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ¡¯s 2017 environmental policy assessed the quality and results of the policy and the factors that enabled or hindered achievement of results. It covered the period from 2017 to mid-2024.
This decentralized evaluation is commissioned by the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ South Sudan Country Office. It covers the School Feeding Programme activities from January 2018 to February 2023.
The evaluation of Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ's Emergency Preparedness Policy (2017) assessed the quality and results of the policy, along with the factors that enabled and hindered those results. It covered the period 2018-2024.
Derived from UN and Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) standards, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ¡¯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 Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ¡¯s strategic plan for 2022¨C2025. This strategic evaluation assessed the efforts of Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ toward PSEA from March 2017 to October 2023 to understand what has worked well, and where efforts can be further strengthened.
The evaluation was commissioned by the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next country strategic plan (CSP) for Lesotho.
The evaluation of the interim country strategic plan for Guinea was carried out from February 2023 onwards in order to serve the dual purpose of accountability and learning and to inform the preparation of the next country strategic plan.
The evaluation of the country strategic plan for Colombia for 2021¨C2024 was conducted between January and November 2023. It served both accountability and learning purposes and informed the design of a new country strategic plan for Colombia.
The Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ¡¯s Evaluation Methods Advisory Panel (EMAP) aims to provide advice on Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ¡¯s evaluations to improve evaluation approaches and methods.