Director Independent Office of Evaluation Of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Rome, Italy
Joined July 2015
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#NotaDePrensa | 🤝 Impulsando juntos el desarrollo rural del país
El MEF, junto a @midagriperu y @CancilleriaPeru, recibió a la Junta Directiva del Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA) para revisar los avances de los programas de desarrollo rural cofinanciados con el Gobierno peruano.
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Dr Indran A.Naidoo, IOE Director, Anoop Sharma, IOE Consultant & Thomas Bousios, Director & Chief Information Officer, Information and Communication Technology Division @IFAD participate in the 2025 @ITU #AIforGood Global Summit discussions on leveraging #AI to advance the #SDGs.
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“AfrEA@25 is a celebration of excellence in African-led evaluation. This historic milestone is also a call to action, urging us to reflect, reimagine, and reinforce our commitment to evidence-based decision-making across the continent and beyond.” - Dr @Indran_Eval, #AfrEA25.
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“Follow-up actions to evaluations underscore IFAD’s commitment to learning, inclusivity, and institutional strengthening, ensuring impactful and sustainable rural transformation and to anchoring IFAD’s strategy with national programmes.” - Dr Kouessi Maximin Kodjo, #AfrEA25.
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IOE is a proud supporter of #AfrEA25, which began today with opening remarks by Prof. Zenda Ofir, 2nd AfrEA President; Dr Miché Ouedraogo, AfEA President; Botho Bayendi, Director, Strategic Planning and Delivery, AU; and H.E. Dr Fitsum Adela, Minister of Planning and Development.
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Our #evaluation of the @WorldBank’s program in #Tanzania covers a period marked by shifting priorities, including the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
How did the Bank adapt? What lessons can be drawn from this experience?
Read the evaluation: bit.ly/44bEfnc @WBTanzania
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African evaluators offer invaluable contributions, ensuring #evaluation in Africa is rooted in the continent’s culture, tradition & wisdom & that African perspectives inform the global evaluation community.
@msegone moderated a dialogue with YEEs in Africa, at #AfrEA25 today
ALT Marco Segone at AfrEA25
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The IOE interactive multimedia display station showcases the Office’s work and support to evaluation in Africa, during #AfrEA25.
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Congratulations on a stellar event, IFAD a proud sponsor
Dr Indran A. Naidoo, IOE Director, meets Dr Miché Ouedraogo, AfEA President, during the high-level opening sessions of #AfrEA25.
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Dr. Indran A Naidoo retweeted
👀 Where you at? We're here in Addis Ababa for the 25th Anniversary of the African Evaluation Association @tweet_afrea! 🙌
If you're around, swing by the GEI booth. Let’s connect, catch up & celebrate #AfrEA25 together! 🎉
Dr. Indran A Naidoo retweeted
Evaluation transforms people's lives and our footprint on the planet.
@eval_youth Former Chair @gabyrflores explains her vision at the Summit for the Future of Evaluation in Colombo.
#Eval4Action
Honored to host ECG in Rome this week
The Heads of the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) meet at @IFAD headquarters, in Rome, for the ECG Spring meeting 2025. This is the second time in history that #IFADeval hosts the bi-annual gathering.
Official event page: bit.ly/3R3b0fO
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"Today, the big names, the era evaluation gurus, are out. In some cases, this is good because they projected a particular ideology” - Dr Indran A Naidoo, #IFADeval Director, at the 2025 IDEAS/NDB-IEO International Conference keynote address. Read more: bit.ly/3DhesR7
Independence remains key for credibility, access in and reporting out, and ensuring legitimacy and authority to bring about transformation
#IFADeval Director Dr Indran A. Naidoo: "As an evaluation community, we are under constant pressure on the dimension of independence."
#IDEASCONF2025
Good to host GEI at IFAD Rome, we crafting the next steps for the GEI
#Today! #IFADeval is hosting the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) partnership council meeting at IFAD HQ in Rome.
GEI supports developing country governments with strengthening monitoring, evaluation and the use of evidence.
More info: bit.ly/41lvTtb
Excellent event and congratulations to the evaluation offices of UNICEF and WFP for assembling great minds, experience and generating stimulating discussions
.@IFADeval Director @Indran_Eval at the @UNICEFEval & @WFP Global Impact Evaluation Forum in NY sharing 🎥 on-camera reflections on ⁉️ why impact #evaluation is critical in current times of crisis and conflict
➡️ Find clips on the event website soon: bit.ly/41ctdOw
IFAD program in Tunisia received Board visit this week to witness results achieved and understand challenges that need joint action. Thank you to IFAD team for good organization and Board delegation for sharing reflections. Collectively it advances development results
Dr Indran A. Naidoo, IOE Director, meets Arnaud Peral, UN Resident Coordinator in Tunisia, during the IFAD Executive Board mission to Tunisia.
News item: bit.ly/3NSr3eS
Presentation: bit.ly/3AqAejQ
We in the field in Tunis, observing changes since last IOE assessment of the program, all perspectives on development progress important for deeper dialogues to advance IFAD support to member states
IOE Director Dr Indran A. Naidoo joins a delegation of IFAD Executive Board representatives on a mission to #Tunisia. The mission enables witnessing IFAD’s work & promoting dialogue with state & local government officials.
More: bit.ly/3NSr3eS, bit.ly/3AqAejQ
our latest evaluation in Chad focusing on the Sahelian zone
🔎 Our latest #evaluation in #Chad found that the Project to Improve the Resilience of Agricultural Systems was the first IFAD-financed project in the Sahelian zone to make women’s participation a priority. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4fj9O2b
Successful event to cement necessary collaboration between Board, Management and IOE to advance IFAD mandate.
🔵 On 9&10 October, #IFADeval hosted the third annual meeting of the Evaluation Advisory Panel (EAP), which provided advice to IOE on several strategic issues and paid special attention to following up on areas for methodological development.
📰 Read more: bit.ly/3BXjMaX
