At the request of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Country Office in Ukraine in May 2024, the FAO Office of Evaluation conducted this programme assessment of FAO’s Ukraine emergency response (2022–2024). Addressing the strong needs of the FAO Country Office in Ukraine to have feedback and a report that could inform their planning for 2025, this programme assessment is a targeted exercise from the FAO Office of Evaluation.
The programme assessment sought to answer two key questions:
i. What have been the results of FAO’s emergency work?
ii. What are the key lessons that can feed into FAO Ukraine’s upcoming multiyear programme and any future surge responses?
An independent Evaluation Team was assigned to the task, traveling to Ukraine in September 2024. In October and November, feedback was provided to the FAO Country Office in Ukraine to help shape future programming, as well as validate findings, through a series of presentations and workshops. This report is the main deliverable of the programme assessment to an external audience. It provides an overview of the context and the FAO programme in the country, it details in full the methodology used and presents the main results of FAO’s emergency work in Ukraine, as well as key lessons.