Front-end Analysis of the Evaluation process: Why, When, and What

This module from the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) outlines the organisational and planning process involved in evaluations of development projects and programs.

Contents

The main topics covered by the guide are:

  • Front-end Analysis of the Project, Program, or Policy
  • Identifying Stakeholders
  • Balancing Costs and Benefits and Pitfalls of the Evaluation
  • Relationship between Program Stages and the Broad Evaluation Question
  • Policy Context and Its Framework
  • Existing Theoretical and Empirical Knowledge about the Project, Program, or Policy
  • Program Logic, Program Theory, and Logical Frameworks

Sources

International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), (2007). Front-end analysis of the evaluation process: Why, when, and what (Module 3). Retrieved from website: http://www.worldbank.org/oed/ipdet/modules/M_03-na.pdf