Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
OECD DAC NETWORK ON DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION, February 2010 Download a pdf copy
"The DAC Network on Development Evaluation is a unique international forum that brings together evaluation managers and specialists from development co-operation agencies in OECD member countries and multilateral development institutions. Its goal is to increase the effectiveness of international ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The DAC Network on Development Evaluation, OECD, 2010. Download a pdf copy
"Introduction
In June 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Network on Development Evaluation agreed to undertake a study of its members’ evaluation systems and resources. The study aims to take stock of how ...
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Copied from the DFID website, 3rd June 2010:
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"British taxpayers will see exactly how and where overseas aid money is being spent and a new independent watchdog will help ensure this aid is good value for money, International Development Secretary ...
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Prepared by Miranda Cahn, Evaluation Advisor, Strategy, Advisory and Evaluation Group, NZAID, Wellington, August 2009. Available online
Executive Summary
Introduction
The New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) is committed to improving evaluative activity1, including evaluations and reviews. Since 2005 NZAID has undertaken annual desk studies of the evaluations and reviews completed by ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Authors: Espen Villanger ; Alf Morten Jerve
Published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, Volume 1, Issue 2
June 2009 , pages 171 - 194
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Publication date: 12 May 2009 . Full report (PDF - 366KB)
Executive Summary
1. This brief review of the Department for International Development's (DFID) performance management arrangements during 2008 is a follow-up to our 2002 VFM report on the same topic. It responds to a request from DFID's Accounting Officer to re-visit ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Produced by the Value for Money Department, FCPD, February 2009.
>>Full text here<<
"The principal changes to the logframe from the earlier (2008) 4x4 matrix are:
• The Objectively Verifiable Indicator (OVI) box has been separated into its
component elements (Indicator, Baseline and Target), and Milestones added.
• Means of Verification has been separated into ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
EVALUATOR VIEWS OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE.
This paper was produced independently by Richard Blue, Cynthia Clapp-Wincek, and Holly Benner. MAY 2009
See Full-Report or Policy_Brief (draft for comment)
"Findings derive from literature review, interviews with senior USG officials and primarily interviews with and survey responses from ‘external evaluators’—individuals who conduct ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Date: 21st-24th June 2009
Venue: Belgium
Channel Research and the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) are inviting participants for Training in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action, Belgium, 21st-24th June 2009 (actual training dates 22nd-24th June 2009).
This course is an introductory-to-intermediate level course and has the overall aim of assisting ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
From: "ccwincek"
To: MandENEWS@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:23:45 -0000
Subject: Survey on Evaluation of US Government Foreign Assistance
Dear Fellow Evaluators (and colleagues interested in evaluation),
In 2001, we completed a study for USAID (CDIE) called the Evaluation of USAID's Evaluation Experience. With all of the recent discussion of Foreign Assistance Reform, ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Inn the Consultation section of the DFID website information is now available on three proposed performance frameworks for the UNDP, UNFPA and UNAIDS
Each section provides the following information:
The DFID/UN... Institutional Strategy
Further details and background information
A list of questions
An email address to send comments to
A deadline date for submission of comments
It ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
The following information has been sent out by email
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"The role and remit of the NAO
The NAO is tasked with examining the economy, effectiveness and efficiency
with which government departments have used public money. Our review will
examine DFID's monitoring and evaluation framework and whether it
influences decision making and operational activities. In this ...
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