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The DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation (WP-EV) has developed this glossary of key terms in evaluation and results-based management because of the need to clarify concepts and to reduce the terminological confusion frequently encountered in these areas.
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Si le Groupe de travail du CAD sur l’évaluation de l’aide (GT-EV) a décidé d’élaborer un glossaire des principaux termes relatifs à l’évaluation et la gestion axée sur les résultats, c’est parce qu’il était indispensable de préciser les concepts utilisés et de limiter les confusions terminologiques, fréquentes dans ce domaine.
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El Grupo de trabajo del CAD sobre evaluación de la ayuda ha preparado este glosario de los principales términos de evaluación y gestión basada en los resultados con el fin de aclarar conceptos y reducir la confusión terminológica que a menudo impera en estas materias.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): English Glossary of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Terms.

UK Evaluation Society: English Glossary of Evaluation Terms.

Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University: English Evaluation Glossary.

Glossary that contains definitions of the terms used in the Evalsed Guide and Sourcebooks, information maintained by the European Commision (Section Regional Policy).

This glossary of the "Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Center for Program Evaluation" contains vocabulary and terms frequently used in evaluation documents and explains them in English.

Swiss Federal Office of Public Health - Glossary of Evaluation Terms: This glossary was developed by the Research Policy, Evaluation and Reporting Section of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health to help improve communication about what evaluation is and does. Evaluation terms are defined and translated into English, German, French and Italian.

The Program Evaluation Glossary, maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, contains words that reflect the contextual meaning of the language from both the social scientist and the practioners point of view.

This Glossary is Useful for:
Managers, M&E staff, consultants, IFAD and cooperating institution staff to ensure there is common understanding of key M&E concepts.
You can find an English, French, Spanish and Arabic version.

This section provides a wide range of HIV monitoring and evaluation terms. All of these definitions were prepared by the Evaluation Technical Working Group of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group in June 2008.