The Australasian Evaluation Society is a professional organisation for people involved in evaluation. Evaluation is used in a range of professions. The AES has over 650 members involved in all aspects of evaluation and performance measurement. Members include evaluation practitioners, managers, teachers and students from all levels of government, educational institutions, research agencies, community organisations, businesses and interested individuals. Members meet regularly through Regional Groups in major cities in Australia and New Zealand.

The Society is a Canada-wide non-profit bilingual association dedicated to the advancement of evaluation theory and practice. In the field of evaluation, the Society promotes:

• Leadership
• Knowledge
• Advocacy
• Professional Development

Almost 1,800 individuals who are involved with the betterment of programs and services through the use of evaluation, belong to the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES).

The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.

The American Evaluation Association's mission is to:

• Improve evaluation practices and methods
• Increase evaluation use
• Promote evaluation as a profession and
• Support the contribution of evaluation to the generation of theory and knowledge about effective human action

Die Schweizerische Evaluationsgesellschaft fördert den Informations- und Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Politik, Verwaltung, Universität und Beratung im Bereich Evaluation. Sie setzt sich aktiv für die Förderung der Qualität von Evaluationen und deren Verbreitung ein.

La Société Française de l'Évaluation, fondée en juin 1999, a pour vocation générale:

• de contribuer au développement de l'évaluation
• de promouvoir son utilisation dans les organisations/les collectivités, publiques et privées
• de faire progresser les techniques et les méthodes
• de favoriser le respect des règles éthiques et procédurales

La SFÉ se veut être un lieu de rencontre, de débat et de formation ouvert à l'ensemble des commanditaires, des praticiens et des utilisateurs de l'évaluation, des secteurs public et privé

The UK Evaluation Society exists to promote and improve the theory, practice, understanding and utilisation of evaluation and its contribution to public knowledge and to promote cross-sector and cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate. This website provides information about the activities of the UKES and news about other evaluation activities, jobs, contracts, events, resources in the UK and internationally.

Der Verein wendet sich an alle, die mit Evaluation befasst sind (Auftraggeber, Auftragnehmer, Wissenschaft und interne Evaluation) und will eine Plattform für den interdisziplinären und interprofessionellen Austausch sein. Neben Informationen zur Arbeit des Vereins und seiner Arbeitskreise finden sich ein Veranstaltungskalender sowie Tagungsbeiträge und die deutschsprachige Version der Standards der Evaluation zum Download im PDF-Format.