Annual report on results and impact of IFAD operations (ARRI)
The ARRI consolidates the evaluations of IFAD operations completed by the Office of Evaluation (OE) in the previous year. That is to say, the 2008 ARRI is based on the results of the evaluations finished by 2007. Since the first ARRI was presented to the Evaluation Committee and the Executive Board in September 2003, OE has published consecutively six issues of ARRI up to December 2008. Aiming to provide an integrated perspective across all types of evaluations, the report highlights the results and impact of IFAD activities, discusses lessons learned, and draws attention to related systemic issues with a view to further enhancing IFAD's development effectiveness. In addition, , the ARRI concentrates on the learning issues which are recurrently emerging in OE's evaluations as areas that merit further attention. For instance, the 2008 ARRI dealth in depth with the issues of country context and project-level monitoring and evaluation systems.
Among others, the report is intended to provide the basis for discussion by the Executive Board and IFAD on how OE can best present a synthesis of its evaluation findings. All multilateral and bilateral agencies are having to face up to a similar challenge, to a greater or lesser extent, namely how to analyse and report on their overall effectiveness on the basis of limited evaluation and performance information. With the experience gained in the past six years, OE has accumulated an important amount of evaluative data and information for larger-scale analysis and ahs been tracking the evolution of performance and impact of IFAD operations.
In addition, the adoption of the new OE Evaluation Manual on Methodology and Processes (2008) will facilitate the process of consolidating all spectra of evaluations, based on the more rigorous guidelines for evaluations. Even so, ARRI is still an experimental, exploratory document and a challenge for OE and IFAD. As such, OE would continue to share learning and experience with other multilateral and bilateral agencies to improve the practice of presenting a synthesis of evaluation findings.
