ECG Practice Notes
ECG Practice Note 2 - Formulation of Evaluation Recommendations
Published by: The Evaluation Cooperation Group
Evaluation recommendations aim to improve the intervention under evaluation. They inform decision making with a view to enhancing policy, strategy, intervention design and implementation. Evaluation recommendations can also confirm the relevance of an existing situation, and may therefore propose little to no change.
Some argue that it is not the role of evaluators to make recommendations, as decision makers are responsible for laying down strategic orientations, and services are best-placed to address issues from an operational standpoint. As a matter of fact, some evaluations do not include recommendations.
Nevertheless, most commentators support the provision of evaluation recommendations and, as such, this ECG Practice Note focuses on evaluations that do so.
