Efficacy for DPF was defined as the extent to which the operation’s objectives were achieved or were expected to be achieved, and the extent to which that achievement is attributable to the activities or actions supported by the operation. In using the operation’s results indicators to assess efficacy, the evaluator implicitly assessed whether these were the right indicators to use to measure achievement of expected outcomes. However, efficacy was often determined largely by assessing the achievement of targets for the operation’s results indicators alone. The efficacy rating was rarely discounted because of results indicators that either did not capture progress toward the objective or that did not reflect the impact of the prior action in question. Consideration of the adequacy of results indicators tended to appear toward the end of the evaluation in the monitoring and evaluation section of the ICRR, after efficacy had been assessed and rated.