Evaluation and lessons learned
Evaluation databases
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United Nations Agencies
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
The Search Our Site section allows you perform categorised searches using a wide variety of themes or types of evaluation.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
The Evaluation Knowledge System allows you to search for reports by region, country, evaluation type, document type, year and theme. The reports are available as full text documents, executive summaries, abstracts, or lessons learned.
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Labordoc contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights.
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
While UNCDF does not have a section specifically for evaluation, this site includes a complete, sortable list of their full-text evaluation reports to date.
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 evaluation reports for the sectors of Education, Natural Sciences, Social & Human Sciences, Culture, Communication & Information, as well as links to Thematic Evaluations.
United Nations Humanitarian and Crisis Response (UNHCR)
The Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit includes all full text UNHCR evaluation reports since 1994 and a search engine for UNHCR's Research/Evaluation documents
United Nations Industrial Development Organization Evaluation Services (UNIDO)
The Industrial Development Abstracts Database (IDA) contains indexed abstracts of UNIDO documents which can be ordered online. In addition, this site lists evaluation reports classified by region and theme.
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 Group (DAC)
The Evaluation Inventory contains evaluation abstracts in English and French that various international development organizations have agreed to make available to the general public.
Other Multilateral Agencies
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
This Evaluation section website 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.
Also available in Spanish.
The World Bank Group: Operations and Evaluation Department
- The Publications section provides access to some of their studies, findings, and top lessons.
- The Operations Evaluations Department publishes a variety of document series, sorted by type or available through their online database.
- The Impact Evaluation Thematic Group (PovertyNet) site provides access to its evaluations database.
- The WBI Evaluation Group carries out evaluations of all training activities. It publishes evaluation reports and evaluation briefs.
Research Institutions
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The Evaluation website contains IDRC's 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 internal bibliographic resources and databases, as well as links to a number of external databases, on-line resources and organizations of interest to those involved in promoting the rights of children and women. TransMONEE is a public-use database of socio-economic indicators for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS/Baltics).
Donor Agencies
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
The Aid Effectiveness website includes access to statistics, evaluation reports (dating back to 1996), and its updated Performance Assessment Framework [PDF].
German Development Cooperation (BMZ)
The Evaluation section provides online summaries of evaluation reports in Adobe format. Reports are categorised as instrument, project, sector, or topic evaluations.
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)
This evaluation website contains reports and summaries of evaluations undertaken since 1994. It also includes a link to DAC Evaluation Extracts database.
Department for International Development (DFID)
The Evaluation Department provides access to Evaluation Summaries (EvSums) and ordering information for full-text reports.
Finnida
Abstracts of evaluations (1991-2008) of country programmes or sectoral programmes supported by Finnida are available online.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
The sparse Evaluation and Post-Project Monitoring site contains online publications including its full-text evaluation reports up to 2002.
Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)
This site includes access to full-text reports of its evaluation series and the Studies in Evaluation.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
The EvalWebsite has links to published evaluations, as well as a list of ongoing evaluations.
