This document gives guidance on the evaluation of projects and programmes after they have been closed, including guidance to the reviewers and contributors involved in these evaluations. Post-project or post-programme evaluations focus on evaluating the achievement of objectives, actual outcomes and actual realization of benefits, whether the outcomes or benefits are likely to fulfil expectations in future and the effectiveness of governance and management of the project or programme.

This document includes guidance for setting, planning, organizing and conducting post-project and post-programme evaluations. It is applicable to any organization, including public, private and charitable, as well as, to any type of project or programme, regardless of purpose, delivery approaches, life cycle model used, complexity, size, cost or duration.

This document does not apply to evaluations that occur before projects or programmes have started or during the implementation of a project or programme.