NZAID 2008 Evaluations and Reviews: Annual Report on Quality, 2009

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 ...

[US] OMB Releases Plan to Elevate Performance Evaluation

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Posted on October 14, 2009 The [US]  Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo to federal agencies on Oct. 7 that outlines a new initiative to bring a renewed emphasis and additional resources for program evaluation within agencies. Although this initiative is not a comprehensive plan to reinvigorate ...

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. ...