Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Evaluations

The Guidelines are directed to all those who commission, prepare, conduct
and use evaluations, as well as those who research, teach and publish
about evaluation, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.  
The focus of the Guidelines is the evaluation of programs but also apply to
the evaluation of policies and strategies. The Guidelines would have some
application to other types of evaluation, such as evaluation of personnel
and of products. However there are other guidelines and standards – some
additional and some different – that would also apply to those other types of
evaluation.
The Guidelines refer to three main stages of program evaluation:
commissioning and preparing, conducting, and reporting. They outline
procedures that might be adopted to ensure that ethical principles are
observed at each of these stages.