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Managing Aid Evaluation Processes: The Swedish Experience By Göran Schill, Swedish Embassy. Successful evaluation depends on adequate planning more than anything else:. User-orientation is necessary Selectivity is essential Assessing evaluability is crucial.
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Managing Aid Evaluation Processes: The Swedish Experience By Göran Schill, Swedish Embassy
Successful evaluation depends on adequate planning more than anything else: • User-orientation is necessary • Selectivity is essential • Assessing evaluability is crucial
User-orientation: who should actually use the evaluation and for what purposes? • Involve the intended users early on • Define a specific evaluation purpose • Identify matching evaluation questions
Selectivity: how can the evaluation be focused in order to best serve its purpose? • Review the evaluated programme • Zero in on key components of the evaluated programme • Limit the number of evaluation questions
Evaluability assessment: can your evaluation questions in fact be answered as expected? • Is there an intervention logic specific enough to enable evaluation? • Is relevant information available? • What is the timing of the evaluation in relation to the evaluated programme?
General reminders: • Development impacts may take time and are generally limited in reach • The prospects for causal attribution tend to be overestimated • Don’t expect development impacts to be measurable