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The GeoField 2023 Convening, held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, brought together 100 experts in impact evaluation, Earth Observation (the use of technologies and techniques to monitor planet Earth remotely, often from space), and development program implementation.

Exploring the Challenges Implementers Face
Speakers/Panelist

Moderator: Hanna Camp (Mercy Corps),Brad Sagara (Mercy Corps)

Session Description

This Implementer-focused session presents a facilitated discussion about the challenges we experience in planning for evaluations, with a focus on challenges with evaluations that utilize geospatial methods. The session provided an open space to share previous successes or lessons learned in program evaluation and talk about how organizational capacity, sector, and size have affected the evaluation outputs. The session closes with a discussion of how implementers interested in improving our evaluation planning and preparation can best coordinate and share knowledge moving forward.