IDEAS Global Assembly

The International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) is pleased to announce its Global Assembly in March 2009 in South Africa.  This assembly will focus on the issues involved in evaluation capacity building, how such efforts can strengthen the evidence available to countries to inform their own development, and what we now know of good practices in this area. Capacity building has been recognized now for a decade or more as crucial to development. The measurement (and management) issues embedded in generating and disseminating evaluative information are now understood to be critical to informing decision making. This conference will explore these topics with the intent to clarify present knowledge on evaluation capacity building, learn what is working well, and what are the challenges in taking these efforts forward. The intention is to inform the results agenda within the development context.

The theme of the Global Assembly underscores the role that evaluative knowledge can play in development in general, and more particularly, how to build and sustain the capacity to bring evaluative knowledge into the decision making process so as to enhance the achievement of results. Thus, the theme of evaluation capacity building encompasses issues of knowledge creation, knowledge transmission, knowledge synthesis, and sustainability.

MEASURE Evaluation will present:

"Measuring capacity and performance of HIV M&E Systems in Low Income Settings"