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...

Participation Pays argues for the need, in any vibrant democracy, for multiple ways of making development more accountable to excluded communities. In doing so, the book invites an understanding of marginalized people not simply as beneficiaries of technical solutions, but - through the work of...

Entwicklungsorganisationen suchen intensiv nach Konzepten und Methoden, mit denen Wirkungen der EZ erfaßt werden können und wissenschaftlich haltbare, transparente und umsetzbare Ergebnisse erzielt werden. Sie verlangen zu Recht, daß die Kosten von Evaluationen im Verhältnis zum...

Introduction: Can't take it anymore? / William Easterly -- I: The power of scientific evaluation--and why isn't it done more often? -- Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It...