Evaluation is a key tool in improving the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Working Party in Aid Evaluation is the only international forum where bilateral and multilateral evaluation experts meet regularly. Its Members meet to...

"A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who believe that all...

NGO's ladder to development-knowledge and the path of solicitation -- Access to water and the science of financial patronage -- Informal settlements, land mafia and failure of government policy -- Women cotton pickers in Pakistan : lost between the civil society and the state -- Why "education...