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The last decade has seen the rise in the idea that development interventions should be driven by relevant evidence. The Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs), in particular, facilitated or at least dovetailed with the drive for the move towards the generation of evidence by focusing on health related issues (in particular MDGs 4, 5 &amp; 6 \u2013 child and maternal health, and infectious disease control respectively) and allowed for the narrowing, propagation and forwarding of certain forms of evidence, driven by big data and certain metrics. Ideas of evidence, so prevalent in medicine, were increasingly deemed important, as ideas of evidence bled into the development sector with its assumptions and rationalities. This has served to blur the boundaries between \u2018evidence\u2019 and \u2018evaluation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Development interventions are driven by organisations. How do these organisations generate evidence for their interventions, policies and programmes? How do they prove the efficacy and effects of their impact and influence? We seek examples from research that has focused on a range of institutions, including bilaterals like DfID, multilaterals like the World Bank, UN and WHO, philanthropic organisations, Civil Society Organisations and the like. In addition, we ask what are the implications for evidence generation in development with the newly ratified Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and their far broader definitions of what development is? How do these new goals impact on ideas of evidence? Finally, we hope to begin a discussion over what direction the drive to generate evidence is moving. With the means of generating evidence rapidly proliferating (e.g. via twitter and mobile phones), how can the resultant streams of big data be put to meaningful use? Can we create feedback loops in which emerging data can more rapidly inform practice (and more latterly policy)? 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