ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the use of core evaluation criteria, and partner satisfaction and design quality criteria, reveal judgements about on-going or recently completed projects or programmes. The main role of the design quality criteria is to detect whether enough information is assembled and properly presented in the proposal, and whether the investment is likely to enjoy enough local support to be effective. Judgements are based on information that is usually contained in the sections on analysis, background, justification, and rationale of documents dealing with investment design, and the same preliminary sections of plans, reports, and evaluations of implementation and results. In the 2014镃2015 evaluations it was decided that the activity design criterion was too broad, so most of the individual factors that were thought likely to influence performance were distributed for attention under other criteria, or else addressed in accompanying text.
