Even a well-resourced, well-designed evaluation study is unlikely to be able to address all of the above thematic areas. Deciding what to monitor should be demand-driven, informed by the target audience and evaluation objectives as well as the thematic priorities of an organization. Similarly, the characteristics of a project or programme (such as type of intervention, scale, stage) and feasibility issues (such as institutional capacity, financial and human resources and time) are important considerations. How to evaluate? The presentation "How to evaluate?" gives a taste of evaluation design options and the use of quantitative versus qualitative methods, and addresses the importance of the size of an evaluation study. Not every evaluation design is.
