DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE EVALUATION AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRAM-EVALUATION

This article explores the possibilities of improving development assis tance evaluation theoretically and conceptually by exchanging the expe rience with the evaluation discipline in general. Aid evaluation is an alyzed within the overall framework of the foundations of program eval uation. By placing aid evaluation into the framework of the general ev aluation discipline, it is thus demonstrated that aid evaluation can b e strengthened as it concerns its conceptual and theoretical structure , and it is found that attaining greater theoretical and conceptual st ringency in aid evaluations will contribute toward improved quality an d the usefulness of such evaluations in the future.