The glossary of key terms in evaluation and results-based management should facilitate and improve dialogue and understanding among all those who are involved in development activities and their evaluation, whether in partner countries, development agencies and banks, or non-governmental organisations.
It thus facilitates planning, execution and evaluation of a development inter- vention. Related term: results based manage- ment. The term is used for evaluations de- signed to aggregate findings from a series of evaluations.
The glossary is intended to serve as a convenient reference guide in evaluation training, in preparation of evaluation guidelines and standards and in practical development work. The glossary will give evaluation experts, field staff and other partners working in Arabic
The original Glossary, published in 2002 was the fruit of almost two years of elaboration, based on an initial collection of terms used by development agencies. The selection of terms and their definitions were carefully discussed and analysed, and benefited from inputs from many sources and advice from the academic evaluation community.