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Produced by: Advancing the policy and practice of capacity building in international development cooperation In this Issue Evaluating Capacity Development Learning about capacity development through its evaluation: experiences from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas 2-12 In recent years, self-evaluation has been recommended for capacity development efforts in response to a growing awareness that externally led evaluations are often inappropriate or counterproductive. Self-evaluation has been seen as a means of assessing the needs for capac- ity development, of developing effective strategies and of improving existing or future pro- News and Events grammes. The implication is that capacity development efforts require an internal evaluation capacity in order to ensure their own relevance, effectiveness and efficiency. A workshop on evaluation is being convened by CTA in Wageningen, The Netherlands from While this change in understanding the role of evaluation in capacity development efforts is 8 to 12 September 2003. Participants drawn laudable, questions remain about the practicality of self-evaluation approaches in international from EU and ACP bodies will review material development cooperation and about the extent to which self-evaluation can contribute to collected for a book CTA is compiling on le