Evaluation handbook

This handbook has been developed for country offices to provide a step-by-step, practical guide to the evaluation process. Its purpose is to help managers, teams and technical specialists to ensure that evaluations are systematically designed and implemented to a high standard. This includes where Save the Children is conducting internal evaluations or commissioning and managing external evaluations. It also aims to ensure that learning is fed back into our programmes in a systematic way. It sets out the Save the Children International (SCI) Management Operating Standards (MOS) for evaluations and follows the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) on evaluations. It will give teams an oversight of SCI standards and principles for designing, planning and implementing evaluations, as well as guidance on how to communicate the findings and follow up on recommendations made.