The Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA) convened its third Evaluation conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 6-9 June 2011 starting with two days of professional development workshops. The overall theme of the conference was ‘Evaluation for Policy and Action' with the following as subthemes,: Evaluation for influencing policy and policy evaluation , Evaluation for supporting development programmes , Evaluation in disaster reduction and management , Evaluating networks and partnerships , Building the evaluation field ,Evaluation methodologies and approaches , Other evaluation issues