 At the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Office of Evaluation assesses programs and projects at global, regional and national levels. These evaluations are part of FAO's endorsement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals dealing with poverty, hunger, gender, inequality, peace and partnerships. In June of 2019, the German Ministry of Agriculture requested an evaluation of projects related to the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security. An initial stakeholder workshop was held to gather outcomes and included representatives from countries that benefited from German-funded projects – Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Senegal, Sierra Leone. In addition, representatives from other agencies were present. The workshop included outcome harvesting, which encouraged participants to express tangible results using simple terminology. Participants were asked about results obtained through projects funded by Germany. VGT came to Mongolia in 2014, and the translation into Mongolian language took one year. For example, the word tenure, we don't have in Mongolian language. And then we organized one whole day workshop just to describe this tenure word into Mongolian. And at the end, finally, we agreed, we agreed to use the word edilbir. Now this edilbir, meaning tenure word, is using all of our Mongolian. What we had to do to make this work successful is to work with the different tradition authorities, bringing them together. You notice that when you go to the north part of Selarion, this is a purely male-dominated community, especially when we talk about land. What we did in the process was to bring the tradition authorities from the north to meet with those from the south where you find female paramount chiefs. So learning from the south has also helped them to know that cross-feeding, where tradition authorities can say, if in the south women can be paramount chiefs, there's something we can change to give us a women in the north leadership. Well, we support partners in civil society, partners in countries such as Liberia, such as Sierra Leone, to use those standards when it comes to policy processes in the countries and to the negotiation of new policies or new legislation within those countries. So one example would be the Liberia Land Rights Act that was adopted in 2018 and which is considered to be one of the most progressive across the continent. And there the civil society working group on land reform in Liberia really used some principles from those guidelines to make it as progressive as it has come out finally. There was a project with more than a thousand legalizations. There were five groups of young women and five groups of women who were accompanied in the case of legalization. I'm from a community, the community of Fakala. If I were to have an attestation of legalizations, I would go next to my village to have a legalization. I'm forced to go to Bamako and it's going to cost me the eyes of my head. I can't pay for that. On the other hand, the attestation is a small tax that the mayor is going to give me. And that's going to help. If everyone takes it, it's going to help the federal commission to work. There will be no more. The changes and experiences. For example, that the Malians come to see what is happening on the other side of Mauritania or Senegal. It allows them to close down and strengthen solidarity and also see that in the political formulation processes, it is possible to get inspired by what the other people have been able to achieve in their children's country, for example in the law. The platforms have managed to influence, in any case, the reforms and the voluntary directives have been mentioned in the Senegal-based policies, but also in the Malian. The OED evaluation team is pleased with the outcomes and results and is looking forward to the next phase in country missions to verify key findings from German-funded projects.