The Capacity to Evaluate : Why Countries Need It
Evaluation skills are central to effective development work. Evaluation captures real results, leads to feedback and learning, and identifies areas where more capacity is needed. It is also an essential tool for making mid-course corrections in ongoing programs, developing appropriate indicators, tracking an individual's or organization's capacity to deliver on its mandate, and guiding the design of future programming. Donors now expect countries to be full partners in the development process, which means that they need to have the capacity to evaluate their own progress and to use the findings to continuously improve their performance. The evidence suggests that these changes can potentially have a transformative effect on governance and make poverty reduction efforts dramatically more effective. The World Bank, in partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, is currently providing evaluation capacity development through its International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), which has already trained more than 850 practitioners from 100 countries.
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2006-06
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| Subjects: | ACCOUNTABILITY, AID, AID AGENCIES, AID DEPENDENCY, DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEVELOPMENT BRIEFS, DEVELOPMENT IMPACT, DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, ECONOMIC COOPERATION, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, EVALUATION CAPACITY, EVALUATION RESULTS, IMPACT ASSESSMENT, INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERVENTIONS, LEARNING, MIDCOURSE CORRECTIONS, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NGO, PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION, PERFORMANCE MONITORING, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES, PROGRAMS, QUALITATIVE METHODS, STRATEGIC PLANNING, TRANSPARENCY, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/7441180/capacity-evaluate-countries-need https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9610 |
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| Summary: | Evaluation skills are central to
effective development work. Evaluation captures real
results, leads to feedback and learning, and identifies
areas where more capacity is needed. It is also an essential
tool for making mid-course corrections in ongoing programs,
developing appropriate indicators, tracking an
individual's or organization's capacity to deliver
on its mandate, and guiding the design of future
programming. Donors now expect countries to be full partners
in the development process, which means that they need to
have the capacity to evaluate their own progress and to use
the findings to continuously improve their performance. The
evidence suggests that these changes can potentially have a
transformative effect on governance and make poverty
reduction efforts dramatically more effective. The World
Bank, in partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, is
currently providing evaluation capacity development through
its International Program for Development Evaluation
Training (IPDET), which has already trained more than 850
practitioners from 100 countries. |
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