The major achievement of the Research Group is to be seen in the Transaction's Comparative Policy Analysis series.

In addition, Inteval members have built up an effective network that has significantly contributed to spreading the culture and practice of evaluation and evaluation-related themes. They have had their hands in :

• the organization of the first international conference on the specific topic of public policy evaluation which was held in early December 1990, in The Hague, The Netherlands. This conference’ papers were published in:J. Mayne, M.L. Bemelmans-Videc, J. Hudson and R. Conner, Advancing Public Policy Evaluation; Learning from International Experiences, 1992 (North-Holland/Elsevier, Amsterdam-London-New York-Tokyo, 1992)

• the initiation and setting up of the European Evaluation Society

Many group members have contributed to developing professional communities in their respective countries, for instance :

• Netherlands:

Since 2001, a Dutch Society for Evaluation, Inspection, and Regulation is partly funded by some twenty public sector organizations and by individual members. Information can be gathered (though largely in Dutch) from the website of this organization. Chair is Frans L. Leeuw, former President of the EES and member of Inteval. He is Director of the Judiciary Research, Evaluation and Statistics Center in the Hague and professor of Sociology at Utrecht University. Some 200 individual members are active. The activities range from evaluating no-go-areas, quality of evaluation, impact assessments and risk management, costs and benefits of inspection, oversight and regulation etc. For information you might also contact Frans L. Leeuw or do find the other members of the board of Vide.

• Denmark:

Olaf Rieper was a co-founder of the Danish Evaluation Society and its first elected president from 2001-2004.

• Republic of Ireland:

Richard Boyle is the first chair of the Irish evaluation network, which was established in 2002. The network holds periodic seminars and conferences on various evaluation topics. He has also been active in providing technical support for various evaluation capacity building exercises in Ireland, including: supporting structural funds and National Development Plan evaluation practice and support for the Irish governments' expenditure review initiative, aimed at building evaluation culture and practice in the civil service.