PHA-Exchange> FAO: The Challenge of Renewal

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) ruglucia at paho.org
EQUIDAD at 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 utilising
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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