The aim of evaluation is to improve the quality of activities (including public policies) by increasing their adequacy, effectiveness, utility, efficiency and sustainability.
The Evaluation Standards were developed with the aim of supporting persons engaged in the evaluation process in ensuring the highest quality of evaluation performance.
The Evaluation Standards should serve as a reference in preparing, commissioning and performing evaluations, as well as in utilizing their results. The task of the Standards is to show how persons engaged in evaluation can ensure a process of the highest quality.
The purpose of having all persons and institutions of the evaluation community use the Polish Evaluation Society’s Evaluation Standards as a reference is to unify understanding of the basic ethical principles in the evaluation process and to express mutual agreement on respecting them.
The Evaluation Standards have a general character and regard evaluation as an aid in decision making and management in a democratic society.
