Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs Indicative Principles and Standards

At the March 30–31, 2006, meeting of the OECD/DAC Network
on Development Evaluation, representatives of the World
Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) presented their observations
on the growing need to develop consensus principles and standards
for the evaluation of Global and Regional Partnership Programs
(GRPPs), based on their recent reviews of a sample of such programs
and their evaluations. The meeting was attended not only by members
from the evaluation units of 23 bilateral agencies and development
cooperation ministries, but also by representatives of the African
Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (AsDB),
the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Finance
Corporation (IFC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Participants at the
meeting expressed broad support for the development of such principles
and standards, and requested that IEG play a leading role in developing
them. The present Sourcebook of indicative principles and
standards for evaluating GRPPs is the result of IEG’s response to this
request.