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Several people mentioned a concern that project and evaluation conditions are quite different in developing countries than they are in the US and Europe. Thus, advice given by evaluators in the US and Europe may not always be appropriate for developing countries.

The project site now updated to emphasize that the majority of activity should be input and sharing among evaluators from developing countries. People from developing countries have a more immediate and complete understanding of program and evaluation conditions in developing countries, and so would be the best ones to develop resources for other evaluators in developing countries.

Evaluators from the US and Europe could have input as well. One of the things I'd like to see is some discussion about what these evaluators can contribute. I am particularly interested in how these evaluators can contribute to the project, but there is a larger question as well, that goes beyond this project: how can evaluators from the US and Europe contribute to evaluation in developing countries.

This would be an interesting topic of discussion on the project email list, or on MandE.

thanks

Gene