Evaluation
The Office of Evaluation (OE) is responsible for evaluating IFAD’s operations and policies. In April 2003, the Executive Board approved IFAD’s new Evaluation
Policy which led to OE’s new independent status: OE now reports directly to the Executive Board.
OE
evaluates IFAD’s projects and programmes to assess what works
and what doesn’t and to determine how far IFAD’s policies
and strategies are successful in tackling poverty alleviation in rural
areas. In identifying key insights and recommendations drawn from evaluation
findings, OE is also concerned, in accordance with IFAD’s disclosure
policy, with communicating and sharing IFAD’s knowledge
and experience of rural and agricultural development with a wider
audience. OE's evaluation is based on a coherent set of evaluation
methodologies.
The role of the Executive
Board with regard to the Office of Evaluation is to:
- oversee IFAD’s evaluation work and assess the overall
quality and impact of IFAD’s programmes and projects as
documented in evaluation reports
- approve OE's annual work programme and budget
- approve policies aimed at enhancing the independence and effectiveness
of the evalulation function at IFAD
- receive directly from OE all evaluation reports, including
the annual report on the results and impact of IFAD operations
- endorse the appointment, removal or renewal of service of
the OE Director
Evaluation Committee
The Evaluation Committee is
a sub-committee of the Executive Board which performs in-depth reviews of selected evaluation issues, thus enhancing the effectiveness of the Executive Board.
Meeting at least four times a year, the Evaluation Committee reviews
OE’s strategies and methodologies, discusses selected evaluation
reports and OE’s annual work programme and budget. It also
makes suggestions for including evaluations of particular interest
to the Committee in OE’s annual
work programme. From time to time, the Evaluation Committee
may request the chairperson of the Executive Board to include certain
evaluation issues on the Board's agenda. The Committee’s current
composition is as follows: Belgium, Cameroon (2007), Germany,
India, Indonesia, Mali (2008), Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Switzerland with Mexico in the Chair until August 2007. Indonesia will succeed Mexico as the Committee’s Chair until the end of the mandate of the current Committee (April 2009).
The Evaluation Committee’s terms
of reference are inter alia to:
- enhance the ability of the Executive Board to assess the overall
quality and impact of IFAD programmes and projects and strengthen
the board’s knowledge of evaluation insights and enable
member states to better assess IFAD’s role in the pursuit
of a global development strategy
- discuss with OE its annual work programme and budget
- satisfy itself that IFAD has an effective and efficient evaluation
function
- report to the Executive Board and make recommendations and
seek guidance on evaluation issues of policy and strategic importance
- undertake field visits and participate in evaluation missions,
workshops, roundtable meetings and related activities
As per the Board’s request in April 200, the Committee will
revise its terms of reference and rules of procedure in 2004 and
submit a proposal for Board approval before the end of 2004.
Who's Who in the Office
of Evaluation
OE Professional Staff |
OE General Service Staff |
Luciano Lavizzari
Director
Tel: +39 06 5459 2274 ; Fax: : +39 06 5459 3274
l.lavizzari@ifad.org |
Anna Benassi
Administrative Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2521; Fax: +39 06 5459 3521
a.benassi@ifad.org
Laura Morgia
Assistant to the Director
Tel: +39 06 5459 2542; Fax: +39 06 5459 3542
l.morgia@ifad.org |
Deputy Director |
Under recruitment |
Abdelmajid Benabdellah
Senior Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2361; Fax: + 39 06 5459 3361
a.benabdellah@ifad.org |
Laura Stella
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2271; Fax: +39 06 5459 3271
l.stella@ifad.org |
Andrew Brubaker
Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2339; Fax: +39 06 5459 3339
a.brubaker@ifad.org |
Lucy Ariano
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2490; Fax: +39 06 5459 3490
l.ariano@ifad.org |
Pietro Turilli
Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2303; Fax: +39 06 5459 3303
p.turilli@ifad.org |
Marie Louise Ndiaye
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: + 39 06 5459 2128; Fax: +39 06 5459 3128
o.durayaprama@ifad.org |
Mark Keating
Head of Communication/Eval. Information Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2048; Fax: +39 06 5459 3048
m.keating@ifad.org |
Melba E. Alvarez
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2432; Fax: +39 06 5459 3432
m.alvarez@ifad.org |
Paul André Rochon
Senior Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2433; Fax: +39 06 5459 3433
p.rochon@ifad.org |
Mary Netto
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2243; Fax: +39 06 5459 3243
m.netto@ifad.org |
Ashwani Muthoo
Senior Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2053; Fax: +39 06 5459 3053
a.muthoo@ifad.org |
Kendra White
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2389; Fax: +39 06 5459 3389
k.white@ifad.org
Linda Danielsson
Administrative Assistant
AfdB-IFAD Joint Evaluation on Africa
Tel: +39 06 5459 2004; Fax: +39 06 5459 3004
l.danielsson@ifad.org |
Miguel Torralba
Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2481; Fax: +39 06 5459 3481
m.torralba@ifad.org |
Miriam Irias
Evaluation Assistant
Tel: +39 06 5459 2566; Fax: + 39 06 54592 3566
m.irias@ifad.org |
Michael Carbon
Associate Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2766; Fax:+39 06 5459 3766
m.carbon@ifad.org |
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Chiara Grimaldi
Associate Evaluation Officer
Tel: +39 06 5459 2786 Fax: +39 06 5459 3786
c.grimaldi@ifad.org |
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Oanh Nguyen
Research Analyst
Tel: +39 06 5459 2055; Fax: +39 06 5459 7055
o.nguyen@ifad.org |
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Jicheng Zhang
Research Associate
Tel: +39 06 5459 2643; Fax: +39 06 5459 7643
j.zhang@ifad.org
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