Evaluation Network member - United Kingdom

Evaluation Department
Department for International Development

Abercrombie House
Eaglesham Road
East Kilbride
Glasgow G75 8EA

Tel: + 44 20 7023 0000
Fax: + 44 20 7023 0016
Email: ev-dept@dfid.gov.uk
Website: DFID Evaluation

Department background

Evaluation helps enhance both DFID’s accountability to Parliament and the public and its impact in reducing world poverty. It identifies how results are achieved (or not) so that lessons can be learnt for the future.

The Evaluation Department works towards the following interrelated objectives in DFID and beyond to:

• produce high quality, policy relevant evaluation studies
• promote the use of evaluation knowledge for better decision making
• engage in more and better evaluation partnerships to support harmonisation of evaluation approaches
• build increased evaluation capacity and better evaluation systems

The Evaluation Department's programme includes formative studies addressing new aid instruments and emerging themes, ex-post evaluations, policy-oriented studies, country programme level studies and examination of themes (e.g. gender), sectors (e.g. basic education) and performance management quality assurance reviews. The aim is to determine relevance and fulfillment of objectives and assess developmental efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. 

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