- Seminars
- IFAD’s Impact Assessment for Food System Transformation
IFAD’s Impact Assessment for Food System Transformation
Speaker
Sara Savastano - IFAD and University of Rome Tor Vergata
Date
Jun 7, 2024 - Time:
12:00
The main goal of this seminar is to showcase IFAD’s efforts in generating knowledge and evidence through rigorous impact assessments to support inclusive food systems transformation. Selected examples out of 25 impact assessments IFAD implemented between 2019 and 2021 will highlight important lessons learned for agriculture productivity and food security. The presentations aim to feed into policy and program design with a focus on the importance of data, knowledge and evidence for inclusive rural transformation, food security and adaptation to climate change. Conducting systematic impact assessments is a key step in the process of enhancing development effectiveness. At the corporate level, they help measure progress and achievements as well as inform the setting of new targets for the future. At the project level, they document successes and areas of improvement for each project, as well as the mechanisms through which impacts are achieved. IFAD remains the only international financial institution with a corporate commitment to report on development targets using rigorous impact assessments. IFAD conducts impact assessments on at least 15 per cent of its project portfolio every three years. The projects are selected to be representative of IFAD's overall interventions, which allows IFAD to report on the overall impacts of its operations. The lessons learned from impact assessments are also used to inform decision-making, project design as well as target setting. This presentation will summarize IFAD’s methodology used to go from project-level impact assessments to corporate level reporting on IFAD targets on its goal and strategic objectives. It will also present the results of IFAD11 IAs, summarizing corporate level impacts of all IFAD projects that have closed between 2019 and 2021.
- Data pubblicazione
- Jun 4, 2024
- Contact person
- Martina Menon
- Department
- Economics
