INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1098370 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

IDEAS' mission is to improve and extend the practice of development evaluation by refining methods, capacity and fostering its ownership and use,particularly in developing and transitional countries.It seeks to improve the practice of development evaluation and to promote it as an instrument of and accountability in making and implementing public policy.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE THEORIES, METHODS AND PRACTICE OF EVALUATION IN ORDER TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND THE CAPACITY FOR UNDERSTANDING AND STANDARDS OF EVALUATION PREDOMINANTLY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. 'EVALUATION' MEANS THE SYSTEMATIC AND OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF AN ONGOING OR COMPLETED PROJECT, PROGRAMME OR POLICY, ITS DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS TO DETERMINE THE RELEVANCE AND FULFILMENT OF OBJECTIVES, DEVELOPMENT EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS, IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£4k
Latest spending
£21k
Registered
2003

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Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 19/03/2026, 323 days after the 30/04/2025 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 02/07/2024, 63 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2020 (received 26/04/2022, 177 days after the 31/10/2021 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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Operates in: Argentina · Barbados · Brazil · Canada · China · Czech Republic · Denmark · Egypt · France · India · Italy · Kenya

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025——
30/06/2024£4k£21k
30/06/2023£53k£74k
30/06/2022£35k£46k
31/12/2020£13k£38k