Evaluation skills are central toeffective development work. Evaluation captures realresults, leads to feedback and learning, and identifiesareas where more capacity is needed. It is also an essentialtool for making mid-course corrections in ongoing programs,developing appropriate indicators, tracking anindividual's or organization's capacity to deliveron its mandate, and guiding the design of futureprogramming. Donors now expect countries to be full partnersin the development process, which means that they need tohave the capacity to evaluate their own progress and to usethe findings to continuously improve their performance. Theevidence suggests that these changes can potentially have atransformative effect on governance and make povertyreduction efforts dramatically more effective. The WorldBank, in partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, iscurrently providing evaluation capacity development throughits International Program for Development EvaluationTraining (IPDET), which has already trained more than 850practitioners from 100 countries.
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