UN Agencies

United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)

UN Office of Internal Oversight Services

Food and Agricultural Organisation

International Labour Organisation

International Fund for Agricultural Development

International organisations/ agencies

Islamic Development Bank

Evaluation Associations and Societies

Europe

Africa

European Evaluation Society

African Evaluation Association

French Evaluation Society (Societé Française de l’Évaluation)

www.sfe-asso.fr/

Asia

Americas

International

Non-Governmental Organisations

A network of more than 370 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education.

Europe's Forum on International Cooperation

Composée d'organisations françaises de solidarité internationale. Il aide ses membres à améliorer la qualité des actions dont ils sont porteurs en les dotant d'outils d'étude et d'évaluation.

The InterAction Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group (IA M&E WG) is an autonomous working group established to stimulate enthusiasm and creativity for developing effective evaluation systems.

Resources

The Active Learning Network on Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Assistance (ALNAP) Evaluative Reports Database offers access to the evaluative reports of humanitarian action in order to ensure experiences and learning are shared and to foster discussions on good practices.

The Australian Development Gateway  is a knowledge-sharing website, supporting people working in Asia Pacific countries to reduce poverty and promote sustainability. It is a mechanism for Australians and others in the Asia Pacific region to contribute knowledge and to engage in vigorous discussion. By accessing the ADG, people working in the field of development will be able to collaborate more effectively by sharing practical knowledge faster.

The Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure's mission is to improve the quality of international development assistance and to enhance the effectiveness of developing countries’ public resource management. 

A directory of development organizations designed to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work.

Eldis is a gateway to information on development issues, providing free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources.

Evaluation Center

Hosted by Western Michigan University, this site provides evaluation specialists and users with refereed checklists for designing, budgeting, contracting, staffing, managing, and assessing evaluations of programs, personnel, students, and other evaluands; collecting, analyzing, and reporting evaluation information; and determining merit, worth, and significance.

evaluation.francophonie.org

Programme Développement des capacités en évaluation: Ce programme couvre le biennum 2004-2005. Sa perspective générale est d’amorcer une dynamique francophone dans le domaine de l’évaluation de politiques publiques, et de capitaliser les connaissances et les pratiques dans ce domaine. This site provides information to evaluators around the world about evaluation, its events and methods. It intends to facilitate stakeholders’ networking and joint work.

Independent evaluation portal with evaluation information about: books, links, congresses, societies, organisations, networks, journals, projects etc. (German language source)

The Evaluation Unit promotes the use of state-of-the-art evaluation and management methodologies and practices throughout IDRC and with its Southern initiatives.

A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development projects and programmes with social development objectives.

Promotes education and research into the changes required within global organisations in order to achieve the eradication of poverty, injustice and war.

Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL)

Developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations, OERL's mission is to support the continuous improvement of project evaluations.

This web site provides information about how countries and agencies are working together in a global partnership on managing for development results.

IOD PARC has grown steadily by helping clients to assess what works and why, and by developing and facilitating processes that enhance their future performance.

Poverty Action Lab

The Poverty Action Lab serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape successful policies to combat poverty.

Programme for strengthening the regional capacity for monitoring and evaluation of IFAD's rural poverty-aaleviation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean - Phase III

This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web.

This website offers you access to the six final reports from the 3Cs evaluation initiative and is a key electronic resource on coordination, complementarity and coherence for development.

The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition was constituted in February 2005. It is an informal grouping of donors, UN agencies, (I)NGOs and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. The Coalition’s purpose is to promote a sector-wide approach to evaluations of the tsunami response in order to optimise sector-wide learning and to develop, test and validate produces for the future timely establishment of such an evaluation coordination (coalition) mechanism that could facilitate such an approach.

An online database of high quality Internet resources related to social policy evaluation. The database points to hundreds of web-sites, and each has been selected and described.  The catalogue is browsable or searchable by subject area.

Training Opportunities

International Program Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)

Designed to meet the professional development needs of senior- and mid-level evaluation and audit professionals working in developed and developing country governments, as well as the needs of professional evaluators working in bilateral and multilateral development agencies and banks.