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3ie's mission: to contribute to the fulfillment of aspirations for wellbeing by encouraging the production and use of evidence from rigorous impact evaluations for policy decisions that improve social and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development Link (IFAD) was established in 1977 to finance agricultural development projects which focus on food production in the developing countries. IFAD's main objective is to eradicate rural poverty by empowering poor rural women and men in these countries to achieve higher incomes and improved food security.
IFAD created an Evaluation Office Link (EO) responsible for evaluating its projects and programs. The EO is to assess what works and what doesn't and to determine how successful the policies and strategies are in tackling poverty alleviation in rural areas.
A Methodological Framework for Project Evaluation (MFE) was introduced in 2002 which consists of a set of criteria to be applied to all project evaluations. There are three main evaluation criteria, each divided into a number of elements, that provide the basis on which project achievements and impacts are to be assessed: performance of the project, impact on rural poverty and performance of the partners.
The MFE was updated in 2003 and is available on-line.

This project is intended to work with a coalition of evaluators and evaluation organizations to provide evaluation, consulting or training resources to organizations and evaluators in developing countries.

TrainEval - Training for Evaluation in Development is an advanced training programme for evaluation in development, which is specifically focused on the European Development Cooperation and the EC evaluation approach. The training course is offered jointly by AGEG Consultants eG and Euronet Consulting EEIG.

PREVAL es una plataforma internacional –única en su género- que asesora a gobiernos, unidades técnicas y organizaciones rurales para fortalecer sus capacidades para diseñar y desarrollar sistemas de Planificación, Seguimiento y Evaluación (PSE), como espacios de producción de información para la toma de decisiones y el aprendizaje. Desde 1997 ha prestado servicios a más de 30 organizaciones en 15 países de la región.
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PREVAL is a unique global platform working with (national and local) government institutions, project technical units, and rural organisations to build and strengthen their capacity to develop and implement Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) systems as opportunities to produce information to feed into decision making and learning. Since 1997 it has supported more than 30 organisations in 15 countries in the region.
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Country-led evaluation (CLE) is a relatively new concept, and one that reflects the world’s growing recognition of the importance of a nation’s self-determination in its own development.
The field of evaluation is being reshaped by the evolving context of international aid, and particularly by the emerging recognition that effective development assistance requires that donor agencies “respect partner country leadership and help strengthen their capacity to exercise it.”
Conventional forms of evaluation, typically mandated and funded by development agencies, are now being challenged by emerging independent forms of assessment that put the recipient country in the driver’s seat. The rationale for CLE is clear, but the question now is how to do it. What are the obstacles to country-led evaluation? What needs to be done to support it?
Thus, the purpose of this group is to discuss, explore and exchange ideas with respect of CLE.

Forum for sharing ideas and practical examples of conducting evaluations of international development projects under less than ideal conditions. In particular, where there was no baseline and no comparison group. For this mailing list, yahoo software is used.