Evidence based policy making relies on sound research. Yet while the policy making processes are themselves increasingly under scrutiny, little work has been done so far on the accountability of the research organisations ...

The findings presented here are derived from the systematic aggregation of data from seven independent evaluations of research quality. Each evaluation included a sample of research projects assessed using the RQ+ approach. ...

This “Evaluation Highlights” newsletter offers a framework to capture how IDRC’s support contributes to capacity development at the individual/group, organizational and network levels in the field. The goal is to help ...

Participants were concerned about how to ensure the strategies being proposed by the World Development Report (WDR) would in fact be implemented; there needed to be a very clear explanation of past failures. A significant ...