Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
IOB's overall objective is to meet the need for independent evaluation in all fields of foreign policy. Specifically, the aim is to fit the results of the evaluations into the knowledge cycle of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The reports of the evaluations are used as feedback to improve both policies and their implementation. With the results of previous exercises at their disposal, policymakers can prepare new interventions more purposefully and more effectively. IOB has been engaged over the last years in a major evaluation of human rights in Dutch foreign policy. A number of studies have been published in that context and can be found on this site. In some of the studies a serious effort was made to gauge impact.