As poverty spreads and civil strife grows increasingly prevalent in many developing countries, many commentators have begun to call not only for a closer monitoring of the achievements of development cooperation, but also for Southern partners play an active part in assessing the performance of their Northern partners. Such calls are reflected, for example, in the findings of the OECD/DAC study on 'Evaluation Feedback for Effective Learning and Accountability' (2001), which reviews some of the current practices in aid evaluation. Whilst the majority of the critics are agreed that Southern partners and stakeholders should be more intensively involved, the number of cases in which this principle of partnership has been transformed into concrete action remain few and far between. (More ...)

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