The goal of the Programme for Sustainable Development in Rural Mountain Areas of Albania was to increase household incomes through three objectives: additional resource mobilization in and for the mountain areas; accelerated economic growth and poverty reduction; and strengthened abilities of…
The first corporate-level evaluation on IFAD's engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states and situations (FCS) undertaken by the Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE). It reflects IFAD's growing involvement in such contexts, and growing global interest in FCS. The evaluation…
The Sivas-Erzincan Development Project in Turkey, implemented between 2003 and 2011, aimed to increase agricultural productivity and income levels of the rural poor, expand employment opportunities and encourage smallholder initiatives.
The report draws on a database of 224 project evaluations completed by IOE since 2002 and reveals that the performance of IFAD-financed operations is satisfactory in several evaluation criteria, such as rural poverty impact, gender equality and women's empowerment, and innovation and…
This country programme evaluation is the second one carried out in Bolivia by the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD. It covers the partnership between IFAD and the Government from 2005 to 2012.
As part of IEG's commitment to promoting learning from evaluation experience, IEG is supplementing its main evaluation reports with a series of learning-focused notes which aim to make evaluation evidence easily accessible to key audiences. This note brings together in short and…