Office of evaluation

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.

IFAD photo by Giuseppe Bizzarri 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, Germany, India, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden, Switzerland and Indonesia in the Chair until the end of the mandate of the current Committee (April 2009).

Who's Who in the Office of Evaluation

Professional Staff	General Service Staff
Luciano Lavizzari Director Office of Evaluation Tel: +39 06 5459 2274	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
Majid Benabdellah Senior Evaluation Officer Tel: +39 06 5459 2361; Fax: + 39 06 5459 3361 a.benabdellah@ifad.org	Marie-Louise Ndiaye (CPE Niger) Mary Netto (CPE Nigeria)
Andrew Brubaker Evaluation Officer Tel: +39 06 5459 2339; Fax: +39 06 5459 3339 a.brubaker@ifad.org	Mary Netto Evaluation Assistant Tel: +39 06 5459 2243; Fax: +39 06 5459 3243 m.netto@ifad.org
Michael Carbon Evaluation Officer Tel: +39 06 5459 2766; Fax:+39 06 54593766 m.carbon@ifad.org
Luigi Cuna Research Analyst Tel: +39 06 5459 2187; Fax: +39 06 54593187 l.cuna@ifad.org
Chiara Grimaldi Evaluation Officer Tel: +39 06 5459 2786 Fax: +39 06 5459 3786 c.grimaldi@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 Alvarez Evaluation Assistant Tel: +39 06 5459 2432; Fax: +39 06 5459 3432 m.alvarez@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
Oanh Nguyen Research Analyst Tel: +39 06 5459 2055; Fax: +39 06 5459 3055 o.nguyen@ifad.org
Paul Andre Rochon Senior Evaluation Officer Tel: +39 06 5459 2433; Fax: +39 06 5459 3433 p.rochon@ifad.org	Lucy Ariano Evaluation Assistant Tel: +39 06 5459 2490; Fax: +39 06 5459 3490 l.ariano@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 Monique Mizrahi Evaluation Clerk Tel: + 39 06 5459 2745; Fax: +39 06 5459 2745 m.mizrahi@ifad.org
Pietro Turilli Evaluation Officer Tel: +39 06 5459 2303; Fax: +39 5459 3303 p.turilli@ifad.org	Marie-Louise Ndiaye Evaluation Assistant Tel: + 39 06 5459 2687; Fax: +39 06 5459 3687 m.diaye@ifad.org
Jicheng Zhang Research Associate Tel: +39 06 5459 2643; Fax: +39 06 5459 3643 j.zhang@ifad.org

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Contact information

Office of Evaluation
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome 00142
Italy
Tel +39 0654592521
Fax +39 0654593521
evaluation@ifad.org