"The DAC Network on Development Evaluation is a unique international forum that brings together evaluation managers and specialists from development co-operation agencies in OECD member countries and multilateral development institutions. Its goal is to increase the effectiveness of international development programmes by supporting robust, informed and independent evaluation.

NEW easily downloadable version of the Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Projects and Services now available online!!

This section provides information on planned activities to promote the use of the Smart toolkit.

Paper published by FASID containing three articles reflecting upon the use of Logframe and systems concepts in Evaluation activities and a report on two collaborative evaluations of Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects. See the attached document (pdf).

Fred Carden, Director of Evaluation for the International Development Research Centre, recently presented during the Witwatersrand Virtual Conference on Methodology in Programme Evaluation.

This paper reviews the current field of network monitoring and evaluation with the goal of identifying where progress has been made and where further work is still needed. It proposes a framework for network impacts planning, assessment, reporting and learning that can help to close some of the current gaps in network evaluation while building on the advances that have been made. This document is written for practitioners undertaking network evaluation and foundation program staff working to support networks.

iScale is a networked social enterprise committed to creating, developing, applying, promoting, and sharing the innovations for scaling impact to address the world's most pressing challenges.

As part of Round 3 of the Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) programme of activities, a final workshop was held in March of this year, in Johannesburg, South Africa. GenARDIS, a small grants fund, was established to support innovative activities that contribute to the gender-sensitive application of ICTs in agriculture and rural development and the understanding of gender issues in ICTs.