U.S. Inspectors General, IGnet-–President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE/ECIE), Inspection and Evaluation Committee. Offers a monthly newsletter and roundtable meetings. 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, including agency performance information at http://www.expectmore.gov. PART guidance materials can be found at www.omb.gov/part.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID):

• 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 agencyresearch and evaluation
reports, description of demonstration and grant projects, job announcements, presentations, and other resources.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, http://www.atp.nist.gov,provides information on this closed program’s projects and economic analyses of the benefits of completed 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://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/ppss/index.html
  
  
• Institute of Education Sciences (IES) provides information on research and evaluation studies and reports and funding opportunities http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html?src=oc  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 measures, and OMB and Committee of Visitors reviews of its basic science research programs. http://www.sc.doe.gov/measures/.
  
• 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, CDC Evaluation Working Group, provides numerous links to public health evaluation and logic model resources. http://www.cdc.gov/eval/resources.htm.  The “Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health” summarizes and organizes the basic elements of program evaluation—see http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework.htm.  CDC co-sponsors the Summer Evaluation Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, with the American Evaluation Association. See training at http://www.eval.org.
  
  
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) describes the responsibilities of its planning and evaluation office, http://www.fda.gov/ope/org.html#eval.
  
  
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) offers a periodic newsletter, “ASPE Highlighter,” that summarizes recently completed studies sponsored by HHS. The Policy Information Center (PIC) maintains various databases, including the Performance Improvement Report database, a searchable central repository for HHS sponsored studies and relevant studies from other agencies. http://aspe.hhs.gov/pic/index.cfm 
  
  
• Office of Inspector General, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, has links to its reports and resources for conducting evaluations and inspections.  http://oig.hhs.gov.

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

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ):

• Office of Justice Programs (OJP) maintains a searchable database of more than 200,000 criminal justice–related publications, reports, abstracts, and audiovisual products from the U.S. and around the world since the 1970s, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). http://www.ncjrs.gov.
  
  
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has links to its completed and ongoing research and evaluations of programs and tools. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij.

U.S. Department of State, 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/. 
Links to broadly applicable evaluation resources from international organizations are found at http://www.epa.gov/innovation/international/evaluation.htm.

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. (See page for of evaluation-specific GAO publications produced by the Center for Evaluation Methods and Issues. For more on the Center, see http://www.gao.gov/jobs/arm.pdf.)