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Today, as I reflect on what makes for a useful evaluation function, I remain convinced of the critical importance of these four elements - utility, impartiality, credibility and outreach.

EvalNews provides regular basis information on evaluation of the implementation of Norwegian development policy.

The Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative – NICFI for short – was launched at the COP 13 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali in 2007. Norway's pledge was to contribute up to half a billion dollars annually to reducing deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries – now referred to as REDD+.

Despite it being an important channel for Norwegian development cooperation, Norway has no overarching strategy for its civil society support.

This external evaluation view discusses knowledge traditions and the use of evaluations.

On the basis of the recently completed evaluation of results based management, senior advisers Ida Lindkvist and Anette Wilhelmsen, argue, in this comment, that the intended use of needs to be considered in order to improve the quality of results information.

A new evaluation finds that the results-based management practised by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Norad fails to contribute to effective development assistance because the results information collected is not used to a sufficient extent.

New programme for 2018-2020.

New Country Evaluation Briefs on development assistance to Myanmar and Nepal.

A workshop on evaluation and international forest initiatives took place in Oslo 12-13. October 2017. All relevant informationa; reports, videos and summaries will be published on this page.