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.

The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank recently released an evaluation of the World Bank's Support to Carbon Finance. The evaluation aimed to answer the following overarching question:

Effective and inclusive monitoring and evaluation systems are essential for assessing the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of any programming, and are particularly critical in conflict-affected areas.

Improving International Development Evaluation through Geospatial Data and Analysis is an article written by Malte Lech, German Institute for Development Evaluation, DEval; Juha Ilari Uitto, Global Environment Facility, GEF; Sven Harten, German Institute for Development Evaluation, DEval; Geeta B

Evaluation 2018: Speaking Truth to Power by the American Evaluation Association held its annual conference.

Interested in learning more about evaluation when it comes to food security, agriculture and rural development?

On october 2^nd, 2018 the International Insitute for Environment and Development (IIED) hosted a webinar

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Tech's conference will be held September 5-7, 2018 at the Academy Hall of FHI 360 in Washington, DC. September 5 will be dedicated towards pre-workshops and the main conference dates are September 6 to 7.

From 5 to 7 September 2018, the Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) of the African Development Bank will host its Development Evaluation Week 2018 in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire under the theme Strengthening Development Impact.