The international conference Evidence on a Silver Platter: Evaluation Results for Policy Making in Development Cooperation will be held on 5-6 November 2015 in Berlin. The conference is hosted by the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), the Evaluation Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IOB), and the Evaluation Office of the Belgian Development Cooperation.

We kindly invite you to a presentation by Howard White, Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration, on “Aggregating evidence to improve social and development programmes”. Please register by July 30, via email: presse@DEval.org

We look forward to seeing you at DEval!

A conference on evaluation and development is to take place in San José, Costa Rica, from 15 to 17 July. Supported by FOCEVAL, the event is being organised in the framework of cooperation between Universidad de Costa Rica and Saarland University, a collaboration funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst; DAAD). Marking the International Year of Evaluation 2015, the conference will focus on the question of "The contribution of evaluation to Latin American development – dialogue between policymaking and evaluation".

The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group will organise their Network and Council Meeting of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results between 22/04/2015 and 24/04/2015 at the premises of the German Institute for Development Evaluation DEval in Bonn.