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The following resources illustrate the OECD DAC's evolving consensus on evaluating development co-operation policies and programmes. This normative framework can help guide and inform evaluation work, and creates shared understanding to support better collaboration and joint work. See this short summary for an overview.
For meeting documents, click here. The Network meets every nine months at the OECD headquarters in Paris.
For evaluation reports visit DEReC. To view donor's own evaluation policies and manuals please see members' pages.
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Evaluation Insights
Informal working papers that highlight emerging findings and relevant policy messages from evaluation.
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December 2010
Evaluation in Development Agencies
This study describes the role and management of evaluation in development agencies and multilateral banks.
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June 2010
Summary of key norms and standards - Second Edition
Contains the main elements of the OECD DAC's approach to evaluation, including evaluation criteria, core principles and quality standards.
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April 2010
The DAC Quality Standards for Development Evaluation provide a guide to good practice in development evaluation. They are intended to improve the quality of evaluation processes and products and to facilitate collaboration.
In English: Quality Standards for Development Evaluation
In Arabic/English/French:
معايير الجودة لتقييم التنمية
In French: Normes de qualité pour l’évaluation du développement
In German: Qualitätsstandards für die Entwicklungsevaluierung
In Korean: DAC 개발평가 품질기준
In Portuguese: Normas de Qualidade para a Avaliação do Desenvolvimento
In Spanish: Estándares de calidad para la evaluación del desarrollo
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February 2010
How to support capacity development through evaluation
This tip-sheet provides basic advice to evaluators on how best to support evaluation capacity development through their regular evaluation work, outlining elements of a more “capacity-friendly” approach to evaluating development co-operation.
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February 2008
Guidance on Evaluating Conflict and Peacebuilding Activities - Working draft for application period / In French
This working draft develops guidance on conducting effective evaluations of conflict prevention and peacebuilding work.
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October 2006
Guidance for Managing Joint Evaluations:
This booklet is a practical guide for managers of joint evaluations of development assistance programmes.
Also available in French and in Spanish
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2002-2009
Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management:
A valuable reference guide in evaluation training and in practical development work
Available in: Trilingual version, English/ French/ Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Kiswahili, Korean, Russian, Swedish, Turkish
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March 2006
Evaluation Systems and Use, a working tool for Peer Reviews and Assessments:
This assessment framework has been developed by the Network to strengthen the evaluation function and to promote transparency and
accountability within development agencies.
Also available in Portuguese
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2004
Lessons Learned on Donor Support to Decentralisation and Local Governance
This study presents a synthesis of recent evaluations of programmes and projects supporting decentralisation and local governance in developing countries.
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2003
Review of Gender and Evaluation
This review’s purpose was to distil experiences with evaluating gender equality objectives, in order to improve evaluation practice and development outcomes.
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