Paris Declaration puts development aid in front of a new complexity, dealing with the need for integrating different policies, activating many different stakeholders, implementing the strategy at different levels. Consequently, evaluation has to dismiss rigid input-output analytical frames and to assume a more responsive methodologies. Using UNDP ART Initiative as a test, the paper suggests how to innovate evaluation with more reflexive and participatory approach based on the inclusion of diverse point of view, the analysis of the possible configurations of context-mechanisms, and the analysis of the process-outcomes dynamics.
Keywords: Development Aid; Aid Effectiveness; Realistic Evaluation; Outcome Mapping; Participative Evaluation; Paris Declaration.