Organizations With Evaluation Materials

 

United Nations Agencies

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF provides a database of abstracts and full text reports of evaluations, studies and surveys related to UNICEF programs.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The Central Evaluation Database (CEDAB) contains summaries of evaluation reports, and the Evaluation Plan Database provides information about the agency's planned and ongoing evaluations.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
The Internal Oversight Service has links to their evaluation reports.

United Nations Population Plan (UNFPA)
The Monitoring and Evaluation Resources section includes full text Evaluation Reports and Findings of UNFPA-supported projects and programmes.

 

Inter Agency Working Groups

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
The Network's Evaluative Reports Database on evaluations of humanitarian action is fully searchable, with key sections and summary information. The Useful Resources database has fully searchable bibliographic listings, downloadable documents and links to relevant web sites.

Development Assistance Committee Evaluation Network (DAC)
This database contains evaluation reports produced by the 30 members of DAC Evaluation Network, both bilaterals and development banks.

 

Other Multilateral Agencies

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The evaluation section includes a database of full text reports since 1995, and a catalogue of online and print publications.

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
The Office of Evaluation and Oversite provides access to reports on thematic and country evaluations conducted by the bank, as well as abstracts of the bank's evaluations (many publications available in Spanish).

The World Bank Group: Operations and Evaluation Department
- The Operations Evaluations Department publishes a variety of document series, sorted by type or available through their online database.

 

Research Institutions

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The Evaluation Unit offers evaluation reports, electronic resources and links related to each of IDRC's 3 programming areas and the corporate level. The IDRC Library provides public access to development information via two databases: the BIBLIO database provides information on IDRC's collection of research materials; the IDRIS on IDRC-funded development research activities. Some sections also available in French and Spanish.

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC)
The Centre offers access to a number of resources including internal bibliographic resources and databases, as well as links to a number of external databases, on-line resources and organizations.

 

Donor Agencies

Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
The Evaluation and Quality Assurance section includes access to their Lessons Learned Database.

German Development Cooperation (BMZ)
Materials on evaluation can be found in their Specialist Information section.

Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)
The site includes an Evaluation of Development page with access to ongoing evaluations as well as information on their evaluation policy and programme.

Department for International Development (DFID)
DFID provides a site for searching their publications, including country reports, project evaluations, and strategy reports.

Finnida
Abstracts of evaluations (1991-2003) of country programmes or sectoral programmes supported by Finnida are available online.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
The Evaluation and Post-Project Monitoring section contains online publications including its full-text evaluation reports up to 2002.

Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)
This evaluation site includes access to full-text reports of its evaluation series and Studies in Evaluation.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID has launched an initiative to revitalize its evaluation work called EvalWeb. Its site also includes links to its impact evaluation reports.