ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests a more appropriate approach would be to learn from research, and to look at impact and evaluation within the framework of learning. Development education has always suffered from trying to address two competing agendas in terms of impact: its contribution to development goals; and its contribution to education objectives. A specific example of an evaluation of an international partnership that poses many of the issues addressed in the chapter regarding evaluation and development education is the Partners in Development project, which ran from 2009 to 2012 and was coordinated by an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Link Community Development. Link Community Development is based in the United Kingdom (UK) but with offices in six other countries. Its development education programme has been primarily focused on promoting links between schools in the UK and Ireland and schools in sub-Saharan Africa. Part of its programme of activity in this area between 2009 and 2012 was a European Union-funded project.
