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Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

We employ our Circular Permanent Learning (CPL) approach, which is adaptive, people-centered, and participatory, to offer expert guidance and support to our clients. Our services include designing MEL frameworks and systems, conducting evaluations and assessments, and employing robust qualitative and quantitative methods to understand the impact of initiatives. We also collaborate with clients to co-create and test tailored tools and methodologies that foster organisational learning.

Service Offering

Formative Research

Broad spectrum of Evaluations (Participatory, Outcome, Real-time, Sectoral, Meta Evaluation)

Results Monitoring Systems

Evaluability Assessment

Baseline/Endline Assessment

Evidence based Learning

Current and past clients

Projects

The Office of Evaluation (OED) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is conducting the final evaluation of the  “Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO)” GCP/GLO/997/NET. FNS-REPRO aims to strengthen the resilience of food  systems for food and nutrition security in conflict-ridden regions in the Horn of Africa (South Sudan, Sudan and Somaliland).  
FNS-REPRO is funded by the Government of the Netherlands and is a four-year programme that contributes directly to  the operationalisation of the United Nations Security Council 2417 by addressing the “cause-effect” relationship between conflict and food  insecurity, in Sudan, Somaliland and South Sudan. The programme became operational in October 2019, and it is the first programme in  Eastern Africa specifically designed to foster peace and food security at scale, through a multi-year livelihood and resilience-based approach.  FNS-REPRO targets around 100,000 households over four years across 3 livelihoods (pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, farmers) and through  supporting the development of country-specific value chains (fodder in Somalia, Arabic gum in Sudan and seeds in South Sudan). Conflict  assessment and peace building, natural resources management and nutrition are key elements of the design, which also comprises a strong  learning agenda to inform adaptive management.
The evaluation serves the purpose of learning, accountability and providing evidence for decision-making. It will conduct a comprehensive  assessment of the programme and formulate recommendations that will be used to inform future programming, to provide lessons for the  final months of implementation of the programme, and to inform discussions and decisions for similar resilience initiatives, including a  potential second phase of the programme. The final evaluation will cover the three FNS-REPRO countries, as well as regional (e.g.  peacebuilding/conflict work, private sector and investing support) and global (e.g. collaboration with the Global Network against Food  Crises) dimensions of the programme.

Our contribution
- Providing  technical expertise for value chain evaluation.
- Supporting  the inception report's preparation and the designing  of data collection processes and tools.
- Assisting  in collecting and analysing primary/secondary data, conducting virtual interviews, and offering remote support for in-country data collection.
- Ensuring  proper storage and organisation of collected data, review translated documents, and engage in analysis and stakeholder discussions.
- Leading  the preparation of deliverables related to the value chain in evaluation reports, covering data collected and analysed.

Country/ies

Germany

Thematic area

Agricultural & Food Systems Development

Duration

23rd July - 30th October 2023

Client

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Unleashing Potential, Driving Growth. DSince October 2016, Bread for the World has been implementing a large-scale project entitled  "Agroecological Innovation Network in Africa'' in various African countries with funding from the  German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This "bundle project" on  agroecological networking is about promoting agroecological measures for food security and  supporting networking activities.  With a volume of 9,230,000 euros, a total of 15 individual sub-projects financed through the  "bundled project", which ran until the end of 2022. One of these sub-projects is a project under Bread  for the World’s own sponsorship (PieT). The preparation of the case studies is carried out as an activity  under this PieT.  We worked on 2 thematic bundles of 5 case studies on the topics of  "Communicating agroecological approaches to food security (quantity and quality) of smallholder  families" and "Influencing government decision-makers nationally and supra-regionally to align their  policies with securing the right to food and livelihoods of the poor population". The objectives of the project were: Partner organizations competently communicate agroecological approaches on food security (quantity and quality) to smallholder families and Partner organizations influence government decision-makers nationally and  internationally to align their policies with securing the right to food and livelihoods of the  poor.iscover Scio - your partner in nurturing dynamic ecosystems, empowering entrepreneurs, and propelling higher education towards a prosperous and innovative future.

Our contribution
Preparation of five case studies on the topic area "Lobbying: competent lobbying and advocacy work regarding agroecology and smallholder agriculture at national and international level" at selected networks and partner organisations of Bread for the World.

Country/ies

Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, South Africa

Thematic area

Agricultural & Food Systems Development

Duration

May-December 2022

Client

Brot für die Welt - Bread for the World

Extension services in Syria have been highly affected by the Covid 19 crisis. More than 50% of the extension qualified technical staff had been lost, which affected the extension coverage and outreach to farmers in various locations. About 10% of the extension units were still functioning while the remainder were destroyed or are now inaccessible.  To some extent, the existing technical staff in the public extension service had also been cut off from recent global developments in agricultural technology and extension, due to the crisis and sanctions. There was a need to update and refresh their technical knowledge and update/increase their capacity and functional skills.

Overall, the reduction in workforce and means had affected the capacity of extension to collect data, which reflected in weakened monitoring of the agriculture season and annual planning of production. Moreover, the limited accessibility of some locations and the loss of technical staff had reduced the field presence of the service and caused some loss of trust between farmers and the extension services. Besides the public extension, farmers may also get technical advice and market information from many other players such as input dealers, market traders, private advisors and farmer organizations.A Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) was formulated in agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAAR) to strengthen the capacity of extension services and modernize the advisory service system in the country, transforming its role beyond the traditional dissemination of technical advice on production to facilitating market-orientation to increase farmers’ profitability and income, giving due attention to men and women smallscale farmers.

Our contribution
Designed and conducted the assessment of extension and rural advisory services, focusing on selected regions of Syria, in line with the FAO conceptual and methodological guidelines for analysis and programming of pluralistic and market-oriented rural advisory services (PMOS).

Country/ies

Syria

Thematic area

Agricultural & Food Systems Development

Duration

May-August 2022

Client

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Do you want to learn more?

Get in touch with Stefania Chirizzi

Interim Lead Adviser on Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

stefania@scio.net