Oxfam's Aid Effectiveness Initiative is developing with positivie results a MEL system which tracks how concepts of country ownership of US foreign aid are entering the discourse of USG policy makers and influentials in the international development community; and how their positions shift over time. Also how specific policy asks are influencing legislation and operational processes where aid reform is actually taking place. It ultimately aims at closing the feedback loop between new policies adopted and their actual implementation on the ground. This presentation walks you through the challanges and solutions found. #EvaluationUse #2010Conference #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding #InternationalandCross-CulturalEval #Aid #AdvocacyandPolicyChange #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation #MixedMethodsEvaluation #effectiveness #HowTo #ProgramTheoryandTheoryDrivenEvaluation #QualitativeMethods #InternalEvaluation #Instruments