Strategic use of evaluation recommendations

The recommendations made in the evaluations of the EVALÚA project have enabled strategic improvements to be brought about in public policies and programmes in the partner countries.

Until recently, evaluation was seen as the final phase of a policy, but no attention was paid to what it can offer in terms of scalability: if a policy is quickly found to be of good quality and is successfully evaluated during its lifetime, the recommendations can be transformed into strategic improvements that can be implemented on a larger scale. In this way, evaluation reports and recommendations become a planning tool and not an end in themselves.