Advocating for evaluation

Evaluation is an effective way to capture lessons drawn from experience that can be used to improve  development policies and programmes. In this way, evaluation helps to meet performance standards such as efficiency, effectiveness and equity. Evaluation provides much needed feedback for informed decision-making by putting the best available evidence at the center of the policy process. Therefore, a strong capacity and culture of evaluation carries the potential to become a powerful tool for improvement and change. Exercising evaluation in an independent, credible and useful way contributes to good governance, public accountability and transparency in the use of resources and the results.