Real-time evaluation (Working paper #4)

Real-time evaluation (RTE) has been practised and documented over the past 20 years, initially in humanitarian projects.

There is now increasing interest in learning from this experience to inform evaluations in other areas, especially in development. This paper outlines the different ways in which RTE has been defined and is understood to work. It analyses how RTE is similar to and different from other approaches to supporting evidence-informed action. It discusses when it is appropriate to use RTE and what is needed to make it work well.

The work reported on in this paper has benefitted from a technical cooperation grant provided by Evaluation Department, Norwegian Agency for Development (Norad) to BetterEvaluation. This work is a product of the staff of BetterEvaluation with external contribution from Evaluation Department, Norad. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of Norad.

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