Key Network documents, publications and workshops

The following are Network publications and key documents. Also details on Network organised workshops.

For members' own publications please see members' pages.

Publications from the DAC Evaluation Series

Guidance for Managing Joint Evaluations
Also available in French and in Spanish                                                           

 October 2006

Publications from the Evaluation and Aid Effectiveness Series

Lessons Learned on Donor Support to Decentralisation and Local Governance 

OECD, 2004

Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management (Trilingual version, English/ French/ Spanish)
Also available in ItalianPortugueseChineseJapanese/ RussianKiswahiliTurkishDutchSwedishArabic

OECD, 2002-2008

Evaluation Feedback for Effective Learning and Accountability 

OECD, 2001

Effective Practices in Conducting a Joint Multi-Donor Evaluation

OECD, 2000

Donor Support for Institutional Capacity Development in Environment: Lessons Learned

OECD, 2000

Evaluating Country Programmes, Vienna Workshop 1999 

OECD, 1999

Guidance for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies

OECD, 1999

Hard copies available by emailing dacevaluation.contact@oecd.org (indicate the number of copies you wish to receive and a full postal address).

Documents

DAC Evaluation Quality Standards (for test phase application)
Also available in FrenchPortuguese and Spanish

 March 2006

Evaluation Systems and Use, a working tool for Peer Reviews and Assessments
Also available in Portuguese

March 2006

Joint Evaluations: Recent experiences, lessons learned and options for the future 

2005

Review of Gender and Evaluation

2003

Aid Responses to Afghanistan: lessons from previous evaluations 

2001

Results Based Management in the Development Cooperation Agencies; A review of Experience (Executive Summary)

2000

Results Based Management in the Development Cooperation Agencies: A review of experience (Background paper)

2000

Review of the DAC Principles for Evaluation of Development Assistance

1998

Evaluation of programs promoting participatory development and good governance

1997

DAC Criteria for Evaluating Development Assistance
A history of the DAC Expert Group on aid evaluation

1993

DAC Priniciples for effective aid

1992

Principles for Evaluation of Development Assistance

1991

Outline of the Evaluation Principles 

Workshops

Workshop on Joint Evaluations Challenging the Conventional Wisdom - the View from Developing Country Partners (Nairobi, Kenya)

20-21 April 2005

Quality Standards for Development Evaluation (New Delhi, India)

14-15 April 2005

Partners in Development Evaluation: Learning and Accountability (Paris, France)
- Summary
- Workshop Proceedings

25-26 March 2003

DAC Development Partnership Forum: Managing for Development Results and Aid Effectiveness

11-12 Dec 2002

 

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Evaluation Database

DEReC

The online resource centre managed by the DAC Network.

Factsheet

DAC Criteria for Evaluating Development Assistance

When evaluating programmes and projects it is useful to consider the following DAC Criteria.

Editor's choice

Guidance For Managing Joint Evaluations

This practical guidance is designed to help evaluation managers deliver effective joint evaluations.

DAC Evaluation Quality Standards Trilingual Edition

The DAC Evaluation Quality Standards identify the key pillars needed for a quality evaluation process and product.

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Members' site

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