The evaluation methodologies available provide guidelines for project and country programme evaluations undertaken by the office of evaluation. The guidelines for project evaluation were adopted in 2003 while those for country programme evaluations (CPEs) were adopted and tested in 2004-2005.

These methodologies are based on the principles set out in IFAD's evaluation policy which was approved by IFAD's Executive Board in April 2003.

Both methodologies guide the work of evaluation officers and evaluation consultants while undertaking independent evaluation for IFAD.

In 2007, these methodologies, which are currently being reviewed and updated will be consolided in a formal evaluation manual. The manual will be inspired by a number of factors, namely:

• changes in the international development community and the evaluation profess which includes a general move towards higher plan evlaualtion
• the results of the Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of IFAD
• the recognition that improved planning and preparation will lead to higher quality of evaluations

 

 

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