Carden is an experienced development professional who has built an international reputation for his work in evaluation. Carden has lived, worked and managed complex projects in several parts of the world. His experience is global with extensive experience in South and Southeast Asia, and East Africa. He recently established Using Evidence Inc, a research and evaluation consultancy that focuses on enhancing the use of evidence in public policy. While at IDRC, he was involved in evaluation and research on the knowledge to policy process and collaborated on the development of program design and assessment tools such as outcome mapping and organization assessment. He carries out research and has published widely, most recently on the use of research in the policy process.Specialties: evaluation methods, evaluation quality assurance, enhancing the use of evidence, strengthening evaluation systems and frameworks, evaluation studies, and evaluation capacity building and capacity assessment.