Annual Report: Strategic Advisory Panel on Impact Evaluation 2025

The global development and humanitarian sector faced severe challenges in 2025, marked by significant funding constraints, while we continued to witness crises escalating at an unprecedented scale. Budget cuts directly affected the funding environment for impact evaluation, posing challenges for sustaining impact evaluation at scale. 

At the same time, broader system-wide reforms, including the UN80 agenda and the Humanitarian Reset, called for a fundamental rethinking of how evidence is produced and used across the United Nations system. 

Despite the many and often unforeseen sectoral setbacks, the WFP Office of Evaluation was able to position rigorous evidence from impact evaluations as a strong counterpoint to these challenges. The WFP impact evaluation unit continued to deliver high-quality, policy-relevant impact evaluation evidence across 20 countries where WFP operate.