Some of the articles and chapters below are Open Access and freely downloadable. If so, a link will be available to either download a PDF directly or to find the publication on the website at which it can be downloaded. I will continue to work on making documents available or linking them.
Books
Evidence for Hope. The Emerging Sustainability Revolution. (2024) Published on Amazon with paperback and Kindle formats.
Ethics for evaluation: beyond doing no harm to tackling bad and doing good. (2023) (with Nicoletta Stame and Penny Hawkins, eds).
Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of our Times. (2021) (with Cristina Magro and Marie-Hélène Adrien, eds).
Evaluation for Transformational Change: opportunities and challenges for the Sustainable Development Goals. (2019) (with Cristina Magro and Silvia Salinas Mulder, eds.).
Evaluating Climate Action for Sustainable Development. (2017) (with Juha I. Uitto and Jyotsna Puri, eds.).
Evaluation for Agenda 2030: providing evidence for progress and sustainability. (2017) (with Indran Naidoo and Susan D. Tamondong, eds.).
Evaluating Climate Change and Development (2009) (with Osvaldo Feinstein, eds.)
Historical dimension of development, change and conflict in the South. (1994) (with Ulbe Bosma, eds.)
Articles and Chapters
Understanding and addressing sustainability in evaluation. (2024) In: Towards Sustainable Futures: the role of evaluation. Kim Forss, Ida Lindkvist & Per Bastoe (eds.). Routledge.
A Framework for Approaching Ethics in Evaluation. (with Penny Hawkins and Nicoletta Stame) (2022) In: Ethics for evaluation: beyond doing no harm to tackling bad and doing good. (see books)
Ethical Guidance: Enabling evaluation’s role in tackling bad and doing good. (2022) In: Ethics for evaluation: beyond doing no harm to tackling bad and doing good. (see books)
Evaluation Contributing to the Common Good and to Tackling Bad: Ethical processes in evaluation. (2022) (with Nicoletta Stame and Penny Hawkins). In: Ethics for evaluation: beyond doing no harm to tackling bad and doing good. (see books)
A Global Public Goods Perspective on Environment and Poverty (2021) In: Juha I. Uitto [ed.]. Evaluating Environment in International Development. London (etc.): Routledge (etc.), 2nd and revised edition
Transforming Evaluation for Transformational Changes. (with Cristina Magro and Marie-Hélène Adrien). (2021) In: Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times (see books)
Of Portals and Paradigms: Evaluation, Systems Thinking and the Pandemic. (with Cristina Magro). (2021) In: Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times (see books)
The Prague Declaration: Meaning and Testimonials. (with Daniel Svoboda, Ada Ocampo, Juha I. Uitto, Silvia Salinas Mulder, Rashmi Agrawal and Josephine Watera). (2021) In: Transformational Evaluation for the Global Crises of Our Times (see books)
Introduction: Bringing challenges for evaluation for transformational change from Guanajuato to Prague. (2019) (with Cristina Magro & Silvia Salinas Mulder). In: Rob D. van den Berg, Cristina Magro & Silvia Salinas Mulder (eds.). Evaluation for Transformational Change: opportunities and challenges for the Sustainable Development Goals, 1-16 (see books)
Systems evaluations for transformational change. (2019) (with Cristina Magro). In: Rob D. van den Berg, Cristina Magro & Silvia Salinas Mulder (eds.). Evaluation for Transformational Change: opportunities and challenges for the Sustainable Development Goals, 131-156 (see books)
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development: Introduction. (2017) (with J.I. Uitto & J. Puri). In: J.I. Uitto, J. Puri and Rob D. van den Berg. Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development, p. 1-12 (see books)
Action on Climate Change: What Does It Mean and Where Does It Lead To? (2017) (with Lee Cando-Noordhuizen). In: J.I. Uitto, J. Puri and Rob D. van den Berg. Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development. p. 13-34 (see books)
Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development. (2017) In: J.I. Uitto, J. Puri and Rob D. van den Berg. Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development. p. 37-52 (see books)
A global perspective on capacity development for the professionalization of evaluation. (2017) In: Zeitschrift für Evaluation. Themenheft: Zwanzig Jahre DeGEval. 16, Jg. Heft 2. September 2017, pp. 219-223
Ideas from IDEAS for the Bangkok Principles. (2016) in: Blending Evaluation Principles with Development Practices to Change People’s Lives. Proceedings from the Fourth International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities. 20-30 October 2015, Bangkok, Thailand. UNDP, New York, pp. 48-51
A Global Public Goods Perspective on Environment and Poverty (2014) in: Juha I. Uitto [ed.]. Evaluating Environment in International Development – London (etc.): Routledge (etc.) pp 17-36
Evaluation in the Context of Global Public Goods (2013) in: Ray C. Rist, Marie-Helene Boily & Frederic Martin [eds.] Development Evaluation in Turbulent Times: Dealing with Crises that Endanger our Future. Washington, DC: The World Bank
The Challenge of Biodiversity in Farming Practices as a Research Topic (2012) In: Agricultural Research, Vol.1, Issue 1
Supporting Evaluation Capacity and Environment and Development (2011) In: Ray C. Rist, Marie-Helene Boily & Frederic Martin [eds.] Influencing Change: Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance. Washington DC, the World Bank Group
The Full Road to Impact: The Experience of the Global Environment Facility Fourth Overall Performance Study (2011) (with David Todd) In: Journal of Development Effectiveness – Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2011, 389-413
Evaluation in the Context of Global Public Goods – in: Evaluation 2011 17(4): 405-415
Evaluative evidence in multi-level interventions: the case of the Global Environment Facility (with Jos Vaessen) (2010) In: Olaf Rieper, Frans L. Leeuw and Tom Ling [eds.] The Evidence Book: Concepts, Generation and Use of Evidence. Transaction Publishers [Comparative Policy Evaluation ; 15], 67-94
The dual challenges of climate change and development (with Osvaldo Feinstein) In: Rob D. van den Berg & Osvaldo Feinstein [eds.] Evaluating Climate Change and Development, 2009, vii-xiv (see books)
The future of evaluating climate change and development (with Margaret A. Spearman). In: Rob D. van den Berg & Osvaldo Feinstein [eds.] Evaluating Climate Change and Development, 2009, 413-416 (see books)
Results evaluation and impact assessment in development co-operation – in: Evaluation, 2005, Vol. 11 (1): 27-36
Disjuncture and marginality: towards a new approach to development practice (with Philip Quarles van Ufford) (2005) In: David Mosse & David Lewis [ed.] The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development. London [etc.], Pluto Press, pp. 196-212
De samenwerking tussen Nederland en Suriname in breder perspectief (the cooperation between the Netherlands and Suriname in a wider perspective) (2004) In: Pitou van Dijk & Gert van Oostindië. De toekomst van de samenwerking met Suriname, Amsterdam
Evaluating the fundamentalism of evaluation (2004) In: Oscar Salemink, Anton van Harskamp, Ananta Kumar Giri [eds.] The development of religion/the religion of development. Delft : Eburon, 2004, pp. 67-73
Leert de hulp van lessen uit het verleden? (Does aid learn from its past?) In: Internationale Spectator, April 2001 – LIV – nr. 4 – 253-260
Eco-regional approaches and Agenda 21: a policy view. In: Eco-regional approaches for sustainable land use and food production : Proceedings of a symposium on eco-regional approaches in agricultural research, 12-16 December 1994, ISNAR, The Hague, Dordrecht [etc.] : Kluwer Academic Publishers [etc.], 1995 – pp. 33-42
The historical dimension of change and conflict: between local history and grand theories (with Ulbe Bosma) (1994) In: Historical dimension of development, change and conflict in the South, pp. 9-22.
Present and future research from the viewpoint of development cooperation: from research to results. (1990) In: Research and development cooperation : the role of the Netherlands C. Schweigman and U.T. Bosma (eds.) – Amsterdam : Royal Tropical Institute – pp. 152-158.
Onderzoek in ontwikkeling. (Research in development) (with Peter Tack) In: Internationale Spectator, Ontwikkelingsserie. 1988, jaargang xxiii – nr. 1. – p. 157 – 164
Discrepanties tussen beleid en uitvoering bij ontwikkelingssamenwerking. (Discrepancies between policy and implementation in Dutch development cooperation) (1986) In: Internationale Spectator, Ontwikkelingsserie, jaargang xxi, nr. 3. – p. 525 – 533