Stories from Aidland: Dancing to the Tune

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

(From The Broker) Dancing to the tune, by Nancy Okail, July 2010 This story chronicles my involvement in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) monitoring survey on aid effectiveness in a North African country in 2006. The OECD monitoring survey was a tool designed to assess how ...

Using impact evaluation to improve development

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Date: 04 May 2010 17:30-19:00 GMT+1 (BST) Venue: Overseas Development Institute, London (directions) Speakers: Ariel Fiszbein - Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank Professor Costas Meghir - Co-Director, ESRC Research Centre, Institute of Fiscal Studies Chair: Alison Evans - Director, ODI How do you improve development effectiveness through the better use ...

New DFID policy on Evaluation

Monday, December 8th, 2008

"DFID takes very seriously the responsibility to ensure high quality, independent evaluation of its programmes, to provide reliable and robust evidence to improve the value of its global work to reduce poverty. In December 2007 the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact was established to help DFID strengthen its evaluation processes. ...

Consultation Draft: “Better information: better aid” Accra, August 2008 

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Produced by aidinfo. aidinfo is an initiative to contribute to faster poverty reduction by making aid more transparent. This is a draft for consultation that summarises the evidence we have gathered so far. We welcome suggestions, additions, comments and corrections.

Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Thematic study: The applicability of the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations Executive Summary The September 2008 DAC HLF in Accra provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of applying the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations. This report aims to provide evidence to inform these discussions by: • Synthesising existing ...

PERSPECTIVES ON IMPACT EVALUATION: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

An International Conference in Africa for policy-makers, program managers, evaluators, sponsors and other stakeholders in evaluation and development Date: Sunday 29 March – Thursday 2 April 2009 Venue: Semiramis InterContinental Hotel, Cairo, Egypt OUR INVITATION How do we know when ‘development' is truly successful? What can evaluations tell us about which policies, programs and ...

AusAID first: Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2007

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

The inaugural Annual Review of Development Effectiveness, produced by the Office of Development Effectiveness, was tabled in Parliament on 20 March 2008. The review is a key element in efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of the aid program as the aid budget is scaled up to reach 0.5% of Gross National ...

[Video conference] From Rhetoric to Action: E-Government and Aid Effectiveness

Friday, September 19th, 2008

A videoconferenced workshop between Washington DC, Berlin and Paris Date: 17th September 2008 Program Description Increasing the impact of development aid is the core objective of the Paris Declaration, a document endorsed by more than 100 developing and donor countries and multilateral agencies in 2005. The 2008 "Evaluation of the implementation of the ...

Working Together to Make Aid More Effective

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

House of Commons International Development Committee Ninth Report of Session 2007–08 Volume I Report, together with formal minutes. Printed 8 July 2008 The International Development Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for International Development and its associated public bodies. Summary If the ...