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Often brushed aside, ethics in evaluation are an important element. They afford transparency and integrity to the process and also enhance the effectiveness of the evaluation. It goes without saying that if ethical guidelines are duly followed, evaluators’ stakeholders will be more confident in their participation and therefore will have a higher quality input.

There is still a long way to go in this regard, and much also depends on those who commission evaluations. Commissioners should insist on stringent ethical requirements, which in turn would ensure that evaluators know and follow ethical procedures and reflect on the ethical implications of all the methods they propose to use. Evaluators should familiarise themselves with relevant ethical guidelines and ensure that the ethical dimensions of each evaluation are considered, planned for and reviewed by an appropriate ethics committee or similar.