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Evaluation of development co-operation helps to meet public demands for accountability, and supports transparency by providing evidence about the effectiveness and impact of development policies and programmes. Evaluation also contributes to institutional learning and global knowledge, bringing to light key success factors and obstacles to effective development. High quality evaluation processes and products are important, but strong evaluation systems are needed to encourage the use of findings, ensure the integrity of the evaluation function, and make evaluative evidence readily available for learning. Changes in evaluation systems in recent years reflect evolutions in the development cooperation landscape, including the merger of ministries of international development, foreign affairs, and trade; and the establishment of new evaluation and development oversight bodies. Demand for evaluative evidence is likely to increase with the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; in this context growing attention must be given to supporting evaluation capacity development in line with SDG follow-up and review processes.
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The purpose of this review is to provide information to assist development organisations in building effective evaluation systems and processes to deliver high quality, credible and useful evaluations. It provides information about evaluation systems in development agencies and multilateral organisations, and analyses experiences from managing evaluation systems across organisations. The study covers the evaluation systems of the 37 members of the DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) and 9 multilateral organisations (six development banks, the European Commission, the IMF and the UNDP).
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