New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development
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Bibliographic details
- Published: April 27, 2017
Purpose and scope
- Outlines a new common evaluation framework for the Fund’s capacity development (CD) activities.
- Intended to streamline current practices and increase comparability and use of results.
- Adopts for all CD evaluations a common four-step process that includes use of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria.
- Allows flexibility to adapt evaluations to reflect the wide range of CD activities.
Key objectives and elements
- Produce shorter, more focused, and more comparable evaluations.
- Improve the information supporting evaluations.
- Spend the same level of resources on evaluations while allocating these scarce resources more efficiently.
- Use the information from evaluations to alter practices or shift the targeting of CD resources.
Process and methodology
- Common four-step process for all CD evaluations.
- Inclusion of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria as part of the framework.
- Flexibility around the common approach to tailor evaluations to different types of CD activities.
Intended uses and outcomes
- Increase comparability and use of evaluation results across CD activities.
- Enable shifts in CD targeting and changes in practice based on evaluation findings.
- Improve efficiency in resource allocation for evaluations while maintaining the same overall evaluation resources.
_ New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development — April 27, 2017 _
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- New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development; IMF Policy Paper, April 2017