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OFFICE OF EVALUATION Thematic evaluation series Evaluation of FAO’s Work on Gender February 2019 THEMATIC EVALUATION SERIES Evaluation of FAO’s Work on Gender FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF EVALUATION February 2019 FAO. 2019. Evaluation of FAO’s Work on Gender. Rome. pp.135 (www.fao.org/evaluation). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. 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Cover photo credits (top to bottom): ©FAO/Mireia Cano, ©FAO/Pamela White, ©FAO/ Veridiana Mansour, ©FAO/Pamela White, ©FAO/Heba Khamis, ©FAO/Veridiana Mansour Evaluation of FAO’s Work on Gender Contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................... v Acronyms and abbreviations ............................................................................................................ vi Executive summary ........................................................................................................................ 1 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Purpose of the evaluation ............................................................................................................................. 4 1.2 Scope and objectives ...................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Methodology ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 Limitations ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 2 Context and description of FAO’s work on gender ............................................................ 7 2.1 Context ................................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 The evolution and structure of FAO’s work on gender ..................................................................... 8 3 Assessment of FAO’s contribution: Summary of findings ............................................... 14 3.1 Evaluation question I. Relevance of FAO’s GEP .................................................................................. 14 3.2 Evaluation question II. Effectiveness of FAO’s work on gender ................................................... 22 3.3 Evaluation question III. Partnerships ....................................................................................................... 39 3.4 Evaluation question IV. Comparative advantage ............................................................................... 42 3.5 Evaluation question V. Lessons learned, enabling factors and challenges .............................. 43 4 Conclusions and recommendations ................................................................................... 46 4.1 Conclusions....................................................................................................................................................... 46 4.2 Recommendations ......................................................................................................................................... 47 5 Appendices ........................................................................................................................... 49 Appendix 1. List of people interviewed ............................................................................................................. 49 Appendix 2. List of documents consulted ........................................................................................................ 73 Appendix 3. List of projects reviewed ................................................................................................................ 82 Appendix 4. Gender Policy Review .................................................................................................................. 110 6 List of Annexes .................................................................................................................. 124 iii Evaluation of FAO’s Work on Gender List of Boxes, Figures and Tables Boxes Box 1: The evolution of FAO’s gender work............................................................................................................ 9 Box 2: Benchmarking study of the Rome-based agencies .............................................................................. 15 Box 3: Gender and environment – an example from Ghana .......................................................................... 33 Box 4: Gender and land rights – an example from Kenya ............................................................................... 34 Box 5: Projects that ensure women’s participation and access to goods and services........................ 36 Box 6: The Dimitra approach ...................................................................................................................................... 37 Figures Figure 1: Gender gap for different regions as of 2017 ....................................................................................... 8 Figure 2: Key results of the GFP survey ................................................................................................................... 17 Tables Table 1: Evaluation questions ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Table 2: Minimum standards for gender mainstreaming ................................................................................ 11 Table 3: Examples of FAO’s VGGT interventions ................................................................................................. 24 iv Evaluation of FAO’s Work on Gender Acknowledgements The FAO Office of Evaluation (OED) would like to thank the Gender Team, both at headquarters and in the decentralized offices, as well as management, for their support of and contribution to the planning, implementation and completion of this evaluation. Our gratitude also goes to the FAO Country Offices in the Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Nepal, Paraguay, the Philippines, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey, which were visited during the evaluation, as well as the Regional Office for Africa (RAF), the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP), the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC), the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) and the Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (RNE). OED would like to thank all those who contributed