[afro-nets] FAO: The Challenge of Renewal

["Ana Lucia Ruggiero" <ruglucia@paho.org>]

Cross-posed from EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org

FAO: The Challenge of Renewal

An Independent External Evaluation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

WORKING DRAFT FOR CONSULTATION

Submitted to the Council Committee for the Independent External Evaluation of FAO (CC-IEE) July 2007

Available online as PDF file  [395p.]  at:
http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/IEE-Working-Draft-Report/K0489E.pdf

"……This working draft report is produced by the evaluation team to provide the basis for consultations with member countries and the secretariat before reporting on the first-ever independent external evaluation (IEE) of FAO in its sixty-year history. The evaluation was commissioned and overseen by the FAO Council and Conference and undertaken over 18 months with a fully independent team of consultants drawn from throughout the world.

The evaluation seeks not only to assess the overall institutional performance of FAO, including its governance but also to help shape an FAO which can cost-effectively support humanity in facing the challenges of this 21st century, in particular the continuing scourges of hunger and poverty and the growing challenges to our fragile environment.

It asks whether FAO is needed and covers four major areas:
•         FAO's Role in the Multilateral System: What is the appropriate role for FAO in an international development architecture that is vastly different from 1945 when the Organization was founded? 
•         Technical Work: what has been the relevance and effectiveness of FAO's normative and technical cooperation programmes? What are the needs of its constituents and the Organization's comparative advantages and thus what is now required? 
•         Management, Administration and Organization, including planning, programming and budget, administrative and financial systems and organizational culture and structure: are these fit for purpose, flexible, demonstrating fiduciary responsibility, inspiring innovation and utilizing all that modern management practice and modern technology can now offer? 
•         Global Governance of food and agriculture and governance of the work of the FAO Secretariat: Is governance exercising its dual roles in contributing to global governance and ensuring an effective and relevant FAO in a cost-effective and transparent manner and with the ownership of all members?

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Mrs. Ana Lucia Ruggiero 
mailto:ruglucia@paho.org