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CONTENTS

• Editorial 2
• Letters 3
• News from around the world 4
• What's new at … 13
• Conference reports 17
• Opinion - Barry Gaberman 21
• Opinion - William S White 22

ARTICLES

New partnerships for child nutrition
John Heller describes Synergos’s approach to tackling intractable problems 23

Reflecting on civil society worldwide
Finn Heinrich considers what we have learned from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index project 25

Doing ourselves out of a job?
Andrew Kingman reflects on Allavida’s transition to becoming a Kenyan organization 27

What do we need to know? FREE ARTICLE
David Bonbright considers what information we need to make social investment decisions 29

Interview FREE ARTICLE
Paul Brest talks about impact evaluation and the problem of getting foundations to pay for it and to share information 34

Taking evaluation seriously – still a way to go
Betsy Schmidt and David Bonbright consider the findings of a new Keystone/Alliance survey on attitudes to evaluation 36

Divine beings and mercenaries
How are programmes funded by government aid affected by donors’ evaluation systems, Alliance asked a number of NGO leaders 38

Evaluating the evaluators
Perla Ni reflects on five different approaches to evaluation presented by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, Social Venture Technology Group, Acumen Fund, Ricardo Wilson-Grau, and Sustainable Food Lab 41-47

• CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY
  What can we measure? Phil Buchanan
• SOCIAL VENTURE TECHNOLOGY GROUP
  Measuring social return on investment Sara Olsen and Brett Galimidi
• ACUMEN FUND
  Measuring market-based approaches Raman Nanda
• GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP
  Participatory evaluation Ricardo Wilson-Grau
• SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
  Evaluation brings focus Daniella Malin

The impact industry: who needs it?
Inga Pagava makes the case for peer evaluation 48

Interview
Percy Barnevik explains why Hand in Hand uses ‘measurements, measurements all the time’ 49

Beyond good intentions
Ruth Levine and Bill Savedoff argue that evaluation should be treated as a ‘public good’ 52

The real evaluation gap
The real need is to build the field of evaluation in the South, argues Fred Carden 53

The risk business
How much risk are they prepared to run, how do they assess it, and how do they try to minimize it, Alliance asked a group of funders 55

A lot more to be done
Akwasi Aidoo reflects on the various contributions to this special feature 59

From Alliance, Vol 12, No 4, December 2007

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