Abstract
These Terms of Reference outline the CGIAR country evaluation in Kenya. Piloting an independent process and performance country evaluation provides the CGIAR management and governance bodies, and key Kenyan partners with context-specific evaluative learning to inform decision-making and programming. The evaluation has a dual purpose: to generate evidence on the relevance, coherence, efficiency, and effectiveness of CGIAR's portfolio in Kenya, and to serve as a learning opportunity for refining the country-level evaluation approach and methods. It will assess the extent to which CGIAR's de facto country work is aligned with national priorities and across Centers, and whether coordination mechanisms among Centers and programs function effectively to deliver coherent outcomes. CGIAR's architecture is global and thematic; its footprint in each country is geographic and multi-actor. This evaluation examines CGIAR through the second lens and asks how coherent and integrated that country presence actually is. In parallel, the evaluation will explore the integration of independent evaluation findings within the MELIAF system to contribute to institutional learning, and will generate lessons for the midline portfolio evaluations planned for 2027-2028.
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Citation
CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service (IAES). 2026. Terms of Reference: Country Evaluation Pilot Kenya. Rome: IAES, Evaluation Function
Publisher
Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service (IAES)
