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  "title": "New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development",
  "publication": "New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development — April 27, 2017",
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  "summary": "<p>This document outlines a new common evaluation framework for the Fund&rsquo;s capacity development (CD) activities. The new common evaluation framework is intended to streamline current practices and increase comparability and use of results by adopting for all CD evaluations a common four-step p",
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      "heading": "Purpose and scope",
      "content": "- Outlines a new common evaluation framework for the Fund’s capacity development (CD) activities.\n- Intended to streamline current practices and increase comparability and use of results.\n- Adopts for all CD evaluations a common four-step process that includes use of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria.\n- Allows flexibility to adapt evaluations to reflect the wide range of CD activities."
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      "heading": "Key objectives and elements",
      "content": "- Produce shorter, more focused, and more comparable evaluations.\n- Improve the information supporting evaluations.\n- Spend the same level of resources on evaluations while allocating these scarce resources more efficiently.\n- Use the information from evaluations to alter practices or shift the targeting of CD resources."
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      "heading": "Process and methodology",
      "content": "- Common four-step process for all CD evaluations.\n- Inclusion of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria as part of the framework.\n- Flexibility around the common approach to tailor evaluations to different types of CD activities."
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      "content": "- Increase comparability and use of evaluation results across CD activities.\n- Enable shifts in CD targeting and changes in practice based on evaluation findings.\n- Improve efficiency in resource allocation for evaluations while maintaining the same overall evaluation resources.\n\n New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development — April 27, 2017 \n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development; IMF Policy Paper, April 2017\n  - New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development; IMF Policy Paper, April 2017 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development; IMF Policy Paper, April 2017 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/policy-papers/issues/2017/04/27/pp040717new-common-evaluatioin-framework-for-imf-capacity-developement"
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    "Outlines a new common evaluation framework for the Fund’s capacity development (CD) activities.",
    "Intended to streamline current practices and increase comparability and use of results.",
    "Adopts for all CD evaluations a common four-step process that includes use of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria.",
    "Allows flexibility to adapt evaluations to reflect the wide range of CD activities.",
    "Produce shorter, more focused, and more comparable evaluations.",
    "Improve the information supporting evaluations.",
    "Spend the same level of resources on evaluations while allocating these scarce resources more efficiently.",
    "Use the information from evaluations to alter practices or shift the targeting of CD resources.",
    "Common four-step process for all CD evaluations.",
    "Inclusion of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria as part of the framework.",
    "Flexibility around the common approach to tailor evaluations to different types of CD activities.",
    "Increase comparability and use of evaluation results across CD activities.",
    "Enable shifts in CD targeting and changes in practice based on evaluation findings.",
    "Improve efficiency in resource allocation for evaluations while maintaining the same overall evaluation resources.",
    "**New Common Evaluation Framework for IMF Capacity Development; IMF Policy Paper, April 2017**"
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