Impact Evaluation of FAO’s Programme under the Common Humanitarian Fund

This report presents the consolidated findings of an impact evaluation, aimed to provide an evidence-based analysis of the extent to which FAO has effectively made a difference on the short term food security and livelihoods of the people it supported with funds received from the CHF, covering the period 2006 to 2011. The evidence on which it draws combine primary and secondary data, the former being collected through substantial data collection carried out from April to June 2012 in the three main regions of Sudan where FAO operates and which were accessible: Darfur, Eastern Sudan and Blue Nile.

The CHF has been the main source of funding for FAO emergency activities in Sudan and FAO has tapped about 70% of all CHF funds allocated to the Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) in the period. Out of all areas of work of FAO in the emergency sector, the evaluation has examined more particularly three of the main components aiming to support grassroots level productive capacities: FAO’s core areas of expertise and which represented the biggest volumes of funding received. These interventions included : i) the provision of inputs and services to vulnerable farmers or pastoralists to safeguard or help rebuild their livelihoods ; ii) support to income generation and iii) sector coordination.