U.S. Inspectors General, IGnet-–Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. IG web site lists publications, membership, and employment opportunities.  

• Web site: http://www.ignet.gov/
  Committee Chair: Daniel Levinson, Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Office of Management and Budget provides a searchable database of Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) program reviews conducted between 2004 and 2008, including agency performance information at http://www.expectmore.gov. PART guidance materials have been archived at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/performance_past. Current evaluation and performance reporting guidance can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/performance_default.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released a comprehensive evaluation policy in January 2011 at www.usaid.gov/evaluation:

• Development Experience Clearinghouse provides agency evaluation reports.  http://dec.usaid.gov/  The EVALWEB page provides evaluation and performance monitoring resources. http://evalweb.usaid.gov/
  
  
• Global Health Learning Web site provides Web-based courses on health issues and project monitoring and evaluation (with free login) at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm
  
  
• Results-Oriented Assistance Sourcebook, an electronic resource to assist USAID and other development organizations in the design, award, and administration of results-oriented grants and cooperative agreements to implement foreign assistance activities. www.usaid.gov/pubs/sourcebook/usgov/index.html.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Research and Analysis, http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane, provides agency research and evaluation
reports, description of demonstration and grant projects, job announcements, presentations, and other resources.

U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, http://www.atp.nist.gov,provides information on economic impact analyses, peer review assessments and performance measures of its projects. For their framework for evaluating research and development programs — see A Toolkit for Evaluating Public R&D Investment: Models, Methods, and Findings from ATP’s First Decade (2003, NIST GCR 03-857) http://www.atp.nist.gov/eao/gcr03-857/contents.htm.

U.S. Department of Education:

• Policy and Program Studies Service (PPSS) provides links to its evaluation reports.   http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/index.html
  
  
• Institute of Education Sciences (IES) provides information on research and evaluation studies and reports and funding opportunities http://www.ed.gov/ncee  and also sponsors the What Works Clearinghouse to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central source of scientific evidence on what works in education. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ 

U.S. Department of Energy:

• Office of Science provides information about the outcomes of completed research in basic science and computing, http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/index.html, as well as performance reviews of its research laboratories http://www.sc.doe.gov/OLPE/.
• Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides information on performance measurement and program evaluation to assess near-term progress and ultimate market and economic impacts, and includes program evaluation resources for research and development programs and technology deployment activities. http://www.eere.energy.gov/ba/pba/performance_evaluation.html

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):

• Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) sponsors research and evaluation related to all ACF programs, primarily cash assistance, child care, child welfare, and Head Start. Information about publications, ongoing projects, and funding opportunities and access to their listserv is available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/index.html.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of the Associate Director for Program - Program Evaluation, provides numerous links to public health evaluation and logic model resources including CDC's “Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health” which summarizes and organizes the basic elements of program evaluation—see http://www.cdc.gov/eval/index.htm.  CDC co-sponsors the Summer Evaluation Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, with the American Evaluation Association. See training at http://www.eval.org.
  
  
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) maintains various databases, including the annual Performance Report database, and the Policy Information Center (PIC), a searchable central repository for HHS sponsored studies and relevant studies from other agencies.. http://aspe.hhs.gov/pic/index.cfm

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Policy Development and Research, maintains a database of housing and community development research, evaluation, and statistics publications. http://www.huduser.org

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ):

• Office of Justice Programs (OJP) the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) maintains a searchable database of more than 185,000 criminal justice–related publications, reports, abstracts, and audiovisual products from the U.S. and around the world since the 1970s, . http://www.nij.gov/nij/publications/ncjrs.htm.
  
  
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has links to its completed and ongoing research and evaluations of programs and tools.http://www.nij.gov.

U.S. Department of State,The Department’s 2011 program evaluation policy is posted at http://www.state.gov/s/d/rm/rls/fs/2011/163299.htm.

• Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, Office of Policy and Evaluation, Evaluation Division, has links to its completed and ongoing outcome evaluations. http://exchanges.state.gov/programevaluations/program-evaluations.html  

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), ‘Research and Evaluation’ site provides links to reports and tools for assessing state and national highway safety programs. http://www.nhtsa.gov/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Evaluation Support Division, provides links to environmental program evaluation information and tools within EPA as well as information resources outside the agency. http://www.epa.gov/evaluate/

U.S. Government Accountability Office maintains a searchable database of its reports and testimonies published since the 1970s, as well as special collections of publications on topics of current interest (such as Disaster Preparedness Practices)  http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/featured/index.html or regarding audit and evaluation methodology http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/erm.html.

U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation provides information on their monitoring and evaluation approach for all foreign aid projects, performance metrics, country evaluation plans and completed impact evaluations. http://www.mcc.gov/pages/activities/activity/monitoring-and-evaluation

Interagency Task Group on the Science of Science Policy, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, supports research into the assessing the impacts and dynamics of the Nation’s science and engineering enterprise, and maintains a database of conference papers, publications, notices of upcoming conferences, a wiki and listserv supporting a community of researchers and practitioners in the public, private, and academic sectors. http://scienceofsciencepolicy.net/