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Date(s) - 09/12/2025 - 11/12/2025
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United Nations World Food Programme
Location: Online
Dates: 9-11 December 2025
Forging robust and innovative partnerships is crucial in generating rigorous evidence and drive the systemic changes to underpin UN reform.
The Global Impact Evaluation Forum 2025 hosted by the United Nations World Food Programme in partnership with BMZ and Norad, provides a pivotal platform for partners to forge a path forward, moving beyond siloed operations towards collective outcomes.
Over three days, participants will be able to actively engage in sessions that aim to bridge the gap between rigorous evidence and action.
Day 1:
Day 1 opens with a high-level framing: “The UN in a new world: how impact evaluations can influence effective action,” setting the tone for how rigorous evidence can drive action. Panels on “The added value of using rigorous evidence in an uncertain funding landscape”, “Partnering for impactful evidence” and “Partnering with Governments” continue discussions on maximizing use during uncertain times and the need to work together, while engaging parallel sessions will cover:
- Locally-produced school meals, what it means for employment and agricultural markets
- Fostering safe return and peaceful reintegration of displaced populations
- Humanitarian futures: Data, displacement and decision-making
Not only now: The consistent need for cost-effectiveness analysis
Day 2:
Day 2 delves deeper into the evidence with feature panels on “Women’s empowerment: Insights, innovations and challenges” and “Layering, sequencing and collaborating to build resilience”. Also follow parallel sessions on the following themes:
- Future tense: How will impact evaluations use AI, machine learning and innovations in data?
- Investing in child outcomes: What works for keeping children resilient, healthy, protected and learning?
- The case for funding rigorous evidence
School meals: Fuelling learning, nutrition and child wellbeing
Day 3:
Day 3 of the Forum builds to a crescendo with sessions on:
• IMPACT: All along the project cycle
• Leveraging locally-led impact evaluations: Partnering for results and
• Optimizing Climate and Anticipatory Action programmes to shield communities from shocks
Everyone is welcome to join a conversation with Nobel laureate and economist Prof. Abhijit Banerjee
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