Global environmental changes are occurring at a faster pace than previously thought. In several areas, damage to the global environment has exceeded critical levels and threatens to lead to irreversible changes in global ecosystems.

The 2018 Asian Evaluation Week (AEW), co-sponsored by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Ministry of Finance Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute and ADB's

The Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI), together with the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), hosted the 2019 Asian Evaluation Week.

EvalSDGs and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have teamed up to launch a free e-learning course on Evaluation and the 2030 Agenda. The course will be two weeks long (2-13 September). The deadline to register is 31 August 2019.

The journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050, IF 2.592) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Environment-Poverty Nexus and Sustainable Development". Dr. Juha I. Uitto of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) is serving as the Guest Editor for this issue.

The newly published book Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development by authors Vinod Thomas and Namrata Chindarkar provides evidence of ho

An upcoming IEPPEC Energy Evaluation Academy Webinar will be held on "Energy Program and Policy Evaluation Capacity Building in the Asia Pacific" featuring Dr. Edward Vine (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

The 9th African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) International Conference will be held from March 11-15, 2019 in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The theme for this conference is "Accelerating Africa's Development: Strengthening National Evaluation Ecosystems". The conference aims to:

The theme of The 2nd Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA) international conference will be on Reducing poverty-enabling peace: Evaluation for accountability, transparency and sustainable development. Pre-conferenec where held on February 25 and 26.

This sector-wide evaluation covers a 13-year period from 2005 through 2017, with an emphasis on the period since 2008 following the adoption of ADB’s Strategy 2020.