Subject(s): Economic development projects -- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business. -- Economic Development -- Evaluation in context -- General conceptual and analytical framework : Conceptualising development and development work -- Purposes of evaluation : Empowerment evaluation, linking to modes of planning- process v/s blueprints -- Evaluation v/s appraisal and monitoring -- Linking to planning- Means-ends analysis -- Linking to planning- societal context analysis -- Focus, scope and variables of evaluation -- Framework of analytical categories -- Assessing organisational ability and performance, evaluating capacity building, evaluating societal change and impact -- Modes and means of evaluation -- Scheduling of evaluations and evaluation tasks, general study designs, methods of inequality, economic tools of assessment, indicators of achievements, management of evaluations