March 2006, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
DAC Evaluation Network DAC Evaluation Quality Standards (for test phase application) The attached draft standards were approved by the members of the DAC Network on Development Evaluation at its fourth meeting on 30-31 March 2006 for a test phase application of three years. The Standards are intended to: provide standards for the process (conduct) and products (outputs) of evaluations; facilitate the comparison of evaluations across countries (meta-evaluation); facilitate partnerships and collaboration on joint evaluations; better enable member countries to make use of each others’ evaluation findings and reports (including good practice and lessons learned); and streamline evaluation efforts.The term `development intervention’ is used in the Standards as a general term to refer to the subject of the evaluation and may refer to an activity, project, programme, strategy, policy, topic, sector, operational area, institutional performance etc. The Standards recognise that the product of an evaluation may be in a variety of different forms, including oral or written reports, presentation and community workshops.The term `evaluation report’ is used to cover all forms of evaluation products.2.2 Intervention logic and findings The evaluation report briefly describes and assesses the intervention logic and distinguishes between findings at the different levels: inputs, activities, outcomes and impacts.
