Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 2

This review forms part of the overarching evaluation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), as requested by the FAO Programme Committee at its 125th session. FAO’s Blue Growth initiative is a strategic, innovative approach to improving the use of aquatic resources while simultaneously increasing social, economic and environmental benefits for communities dependent on fisheries and aquaculture. The study finds that FAO has traditionally offered “discrete” support actions that are “packaged”, staffed and financed as such. However, having large-scale national economic effects requires a programmatic sequence of interrelated actions over a prolonged period. This has implications for the way in which such programmes are funded, how FAO’s budget is structured and disbursed, and the expertise and experience required of FAO staff ‒ all of which need to be aligned to such a way of working. As such, the study recommends that FAO develop programmatic aquaculture and Blue Growth interventions to supplement Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) projects and bring about “joined-up” design and strategy. Additionally, FAO could benefit from the expertise of other professionals to deliver its increasingly multifaceted, multidisciplinary, holistic Blue Growth and aquaculture projects, particularly in relation to commercial markets, business models, innovation, new products and service development.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	FAO
Format:	Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	FAO ; 2021
Online Access:	https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CB7611EN http://www.fao.org/3/cb7611en/cb7611en.pdf
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