Evaluation of development interventions and humanitarian action

Development evaluation is the evaluation of interventions such as projects, programs, policies, and processes whose general objective is to promote development. Thus, the evaluation of aid projects funded by external donors (the type of development evaluation that dominated development evaluation during several decades) is a specific type of development evaluation, which also includes the non-aid dimension of development, such as trade.2 There are also development evaluations focusing on clusters of projects/programs by sector or theme (e.g., agricultural projects). In addition, by the second half of the 1990s, development evaluations started to focus on country-level programs, and since 2000 there have been some new evaluation efforts addressing global programs.