Results-based approaches play an important role in the current development-policy debate. There are two aspects to this debate: on the one hand, further improving the effectiveness of development cooperation (aid) is important to the specialists; whereas on the other hand, many donors...

While there is little doubt about the importance of evaluation in development cooperation, the proliferation of systematic evaluation has raised concerns over the so-called “evaluation deadweight” which may exist where costs of evaluation exceed the benefits. We need to understand what...