"The Standards aim to improve quality and ultimately to strengthen the contribution of evaluation to improving development outcomes. Specifically, the Standards are intended to: improve the quality of development evaluation processes and products, facilitate the comparison of evaluations across countries, support partnerships and collaboration on joint evaluations, and increase development partners’ use of each others’ evaluation findings [...] This document is structured in line with a typical evaluation process: defining purpose, planning, designing, implementing, reporting, and learning from and using evaluationresults. The Standards begin with some overall considerations to keep in mind throughout the evaluation process." (Introduction)