Evaluation and Development: Proceedings of the 1994 World Bank Conference Book

To explore the multiple intersections between the new development agenda and the methods, instruments and processes of evaluation, the World Bank sponsored a conference on evaluation and development, which was held in Washington, D.C. in December 1994. This document presents the proceedings of the conference. It makes available the papers presented at the conference and includes the main comments of discussants and other participants. It reflects the views, concerns and ambitions of experienced practitioners and evaluators. The volume is organized to reflect the five major topics that dominated the conference: 1) roles and challenges facing development evaluation; 2) conceptual frameworks available for development evaluation; 3) capacity of evaluation instruments to assess development impacts; 4) consequences of the participatory development agenda; and 5) building evaluation capacity through changes in structures and processes.