This collection of works represents theresults of a 'fee for services' contract with theNational Evaluation Council of the Policy for SocialDevelopment in Mexico (CONEVAL), enforced between 2007 and2008. The goal of the job was to provide support to CONEVALin the strengthening of the general guidelines of evaluationof the federal programmers of the federal publicadministration that were published in March 2007 by CONEVALitself, the ministry of the treasury and public credit andthe public function. It was for such a purpose that the teamof the World Bank worked on four different reports thatlooked at providing an integral analysis of the guidelines.The four reports include: an executive summary, aninstitutional analysis of the guidelines, a management toolsanalysis of the guidelines, and an analysis of the basicinformation within the context of the guidelines. Theguidelines were published to consolidate the vision of theMexican government to create a 'menu ofevaluations' aimed at providing different key userswithin the public administration with performanceinformation that will serve their different needs. It iswithin this context that the analysis had as its generalobjective to analyze the results of the first year of theimplementation of the 2007 guidelines and also to reflect onthe content of the guidelines based on international experience.