Subject(s): Civil society -- Poverty & Homelessness -- Economic assistance -- Population -- Social Fund -- Evolution - macro perspective : Valuation and evaluation, evaluation in a world of complexity and information failures, evaluation perspectives on poverty reduction -- Methodological issues in evaluation : Quantitative and qualitative, theory based evaluation- theories of change for poverty reduction programs -- Participatory evaluation- costs and benefits : Front end cost and downstream benefits of participatory evaluation, building local capacity for participatory monitoring evaluation -- Poverty reduction growth : Africa and Asia- evaluation of poverty alleviation impact of alternative development strategies and adjustment responses, lessons learned from evaluation of DFID's aid program -- Sectoral and microlevel interventions : Evaluating microfinance's impact- going down market , evaluating target v/s nontargeted approaches to poverty reduction -- Social funds and safety nets : Economic crises and social protection for the poor -- Development effectiveness in health, nutrition and population services : Delivery social services lessons on health nutrition and population -- Crisis prevention : Tackling horizontal inequalities, governance and anticorruption, combating public corruption -- Social inclusion and civil society : NGO and evaluation- BRAC experience, social exclusion and rural development