European Commission - Terms of Reference Guide

This guide from the European Commission is designed to support staff in the development of Terms of Reference for evaluation reports.

Contents

• Background
• Evaluation objectives
• Issues to be studied
• Methodology
  • Management and steering of the Evaluation
  • The evaluation approach / process
  • Desk Phase – Inception 
  • Desk phase - Finalisation
  • Field phase
  • Synthesis phase
  • Discussion seminar (if relevant)
  • Quality of the Final Evaluation Report
• Reporting Requirements
• The Evaluation Team
• Work plan and timetable
• Annex I: Key documents for the evaluation
• Annex II: Layout, structure of the final report
• Annex III: Methodological observations
• Annex IV: Quality assessment card
• Annex V: The standard DAC format for evaluation report summaries