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NONIE brings together donors including multilateral development agencies and the UN, as well as the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) – a network drawn from regional evaluation associations across the world. This was the second conference devoted to ‘impact evaluations’ and followed on from one held in Cairo in 2009. Presentations were made by many of the leading protagonists in the debates about ‘impact’ in evaluation coming from both universities and agencies such as DFID, Agence Française de Développement, DANIDA, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility. The opening keynote was delivered by François Bourguignon, previously Chief Economist at the World Bank who emphasized that there was no ‘one way’ to assess impact, that not everything could be quantified and that tools had to be adapted to different policy challenges. The ‘no one way’ message was a consistent refrain at this conference with calls for ‘mixed methods’ and theory-based impact evaluation also repeated by many speakers. Among other themes that featured were: