Over the past year, the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) has been discussing ways in which AEA can strengthen its relationships and build collaborative partnerships within the international evaluation community as well as increase AEA members' awareness of and capacity to engage issues that shape evaluation internationally. At its February 2013 meeting, the Board formalized these discussions by setting a priority for 2013-2014 on furtherance of the evaluation profession within the international arena. As a modest contribution to that effort, "American Journal of Evaluation" invited several evaluators with extensive experience in conducting and managing evaluations in settings outside of North America to comment briefly on an issue that each felt was of major importance to the global evaluation community.