Developmental Evaluation

Did you know that while USAID conducted just two developmental evaluations (DEs) between 2010 and

2015, it conducted 12 between 2016 and 2020? To find out more, check out Social Impact (SI) and its

USAID/Indonesia DE Jalin’s new study 10 Years of USAID Developmental Evaluation.

This comes 10 years after Dr. Patton published his landmark book Developmental Evaluation and shows

that DE has come a long way since with one of the world’s premier international development agencies.

Developmental Evaluation is directly connected to Blue Marble Evaluation. 

A Developmental Evaluation Companion introduces the concept to changemakers, and to the evaluators, critical friends and reality testers, who are their partners in that change journey. The book provides an overview of the essential elements  of Developmental Evaluation (DE) to create some coherence, not to present any one version of DE as the right one. There is an ever-expanding set of views, resources and even critiques on DE, which signals to us that the field is very much alive.

The Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) funds 85 agriculture research projects in the Andes and Africa. CCRP’s work has an Agroecological Intensification (AEI) focus based on using ecological principles to sustainably cultivate land. The emphasis is on principles, because the actual practices will vary according to social and ecological contexts. AEI is part of a broader global movement on agroecology.