Lugar Center Blog: Are We Really Learning from Evaluations?
Lori Rowley, director of Global Food Security and Aid Effectiveness at the Lugar Center, discusses a recently released report from the Lugar Center and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) on the role of evaluation and learning in U.S. foreign assistance programs. Rowley highlights the importance of aid effectiveness, the status of evaluation and learning in U.S. foreign assistance programs, and recommendations on how U.S. agencies can improve data quality and the utilization of evaluations (12/14).