DFID has launched its first ever policy on evaluation.
'Building the evidence to reduce poverty', endorsed by the IACDI, sets out how DFID will increase the investigation and communication of the results of its work overseas, through more extensive and rigorous evaluation processes, also ensuring lessons are learned for the future.
'Building the evidence to reduce poverty' sets out an approach to evaluation focused around four pillars:
- increased independence in evaluation
- working increasingly in partnership not in isolation
- driving up quality of evaluation
- creating a genuine culture of learning
A copy of the DFID evaluation department forward work programme for 2009-10 is also available here.