The main purposes of the evaluation were: . to improve the relevance, design, implementation and results of FAO activities in Sierra Leone; . to learn lessons about the factors affecting the relevance and development impact of FAO cooperation at country level; . to provide accountability to FAO member countries and answer questions about FAO performance at country level; . to contribute to a UN system-wide evaluation in Sierra Leone; . to form a case study for a meta-evaluation of FAO country level effectiveness for completion in 2008; . to contribute to development of the methodology for carrying out evaluations at country level in the future.
