4.4 What evaluation can do

1 Evaluation can improve the management of programmes and projects and related activities, and point to the better usage of funds and other resources.

2 Evaluation can help people to learn from experience so as to improve the relevance, methods, and results of projects and programmes, for current and future work.

3 Evaluation can increase accountability:
· to donors: to meet their demands that resources are being used effectively, efficiently and for agreed objectives;
· of donors to the organisations they fund and work with;
· to the men and women in whose name these organisations are working.

4 Evaluation can provide information to enhance communications, within projects and organisations, and between different stakeholders, and also for advocacy work.