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Hind Al Hudib, one of our COVE research team members, has been conducting in-depth research into interconnections between evaluation policy and evaluation capacity building (ECB) over the past few years. Her research includes the review and analysis of a large sample of organizational evaluation policies as well as an interview study with several contributors to the research knowledge base (Al Hudib, 2018). Suffice to say that the linkage between policy and ECB is not a strong one. In fact, organizational evaluation policies are generally seen to be symbolic and benign. However, from her research, there is some evidence to show that organizations are motivated to revise their evaluation policies to make them more engaging and useful. One of the chief concerns arising from this research is that evaluation policies appear to lean heavily toward supporting accountability-oriented approaches to evaluation. Yet, there is evidence to show that policies and practices that privilege learning as a central and desirable function of evaluation are more likely to connect with organization and program community personnel (Al Hudib, 2018). In our opinion, it would be entirely worthwhile to consider augmenting the content of evaluation policies with due treatment of learning-oriented approaches, CAE being exemplary in this respect. It is likely to be through the direct experience of success with the evaluation that organizational actors will become more willing to embrace evaluation as leverage for change.