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In January 2017, we initiated a global, multichannel launch of evidence-based principles to guide practice in collaborative approaches to evaluation (CAE). Part A provides an introduction to the CAE principles in a single comprehensive chapter authored by the Collaborative Opportunities to Value Evaluation (COVE) research team, which developed, validated, and launched the initial set.¹ The chapter begins with important background considerations, theoretical underpinnings, and discussion of what we mean by CAE and how this particular genre of evaluation practice has been growing at a rapid pace over the past few decades. We then give some thought as to why the field stands to benefit from a set of principles to guide CAE practice followed by a brief recap of the systematic process we used to develop and validate an initial set of principles. Finally, the chapter provides an overview of our evidence-based CAE principles and support materials, as well as some thoughts about their envisioned uses and applications. We conclude with details of the launch and our global call for field studies, eight of which are published in Part B of this volume.

¹ The COVE research team first came together in 2012 (Brad Cousins, Bessa Whitmore, and Lyn Shulha) and expanded in 2014 (Hind Al Hudib and Nathalie Gilbert) as we began work on the empirical phase of the CAE principles project.