UNICEF evaluation report standards

The UNICEF Evaluation Report Standards have been created as a transparent tool for quality assessment of evaluation reports. This introduction provides an overview of why and how the Standards were developed and how they are used. The body of this document outlines, for each of the 22 Standards, what is being assessed, why this is important and how it is applied.
The Standards are intended to be useful to both UNICEF and partners in the management of programme evaluation. These Standards draw from and are complementary to a broad range of widely accepted references on evaluation design and process. They also set standards for how evaluation reports address key shared approaches in development and humanitarian practice – specifically results based management and a human rights based approach to programming, both of which figure explicitly as guiding principles for how UNICEF works.