Updated: Monday, October 23, 2006  11:54 AM

Dear colleagues,

I have the pleasure to inform you that the joint UNICEF/IPEN Evaluation Working Paper on "New trends in development evaluation" was officially launched at the Annual IPEN Conference that took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 28-30, and later on distributed at the Joint UKES/EES Conference in London.

The paper contains articles from 11 authors on new challenges for the evaluation function in light of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and argues that development evaluation should be reshaped accordingly. Prefaces by the Presidents of IDEAS (International Development Evaluations Association) and IOCE (International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation) are also included.

The paper can be Download free of charge in English and Russian at
http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/resources_1220.html.

A Powerpoint presentation summarizing the major issues is also available at the IDEAS website for Download at
http://www.ideas-int.org/Documents/Segone.ppt

Additional information on the Annual IPEN Conference are available at
http://www.eval-net.org/2006/

Best regards
Marco Segone
Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation
UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS & BS