Multiple method evaluation involves the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods to answer a research question.

An evaluation conducted to determine the quality, merit, worth , or shortcomings of a program. By contrast,

A determination as to whether a program can be evaluated using the type of evaluation planned with the available resources and within the proposed time frame.

Evaluation of an evaluation. Meta-evaluation is particularly needed where evaluation results may influence critical or resource-consuming decisions.

People who conduct evaluations, including staff of government and funding agencies, NGOs, consulting firms, academics, independent consultants, and external evaluators.

An evaluation intended to help improve the implementation and outcomes of the ongoing project or program being evaluated. By contrast, a

Different approaches to evaluation that prioritize different elements such as purposes, stakeholders, and procedures. Stufflebean (2001) identifies 22 evaluation designs (see also Mathison 2005:256-58)

RealWorld Evaluation. An approach developed for evaluations operating under budget, time, data, or political restraints intended to maximize the rigor of methods and the validity of findings.

All those who may potentially use the evaluation findings. These include funding agencies, government planning and finance ministries, agencies implementing the project being evaluated, intended project beneficiaries and groups that may be affected by the project, academics, evaluation consultants, and civil society.

Strengthening the capacity of stakeholders to commission, design, implement, interpret, and use evaluations. This may be achieved through formal training or through interactive evaluation capacity development.

An evaluation that studies and assesses the way in which a project is implemented and how it is affected by the context in which it operates. This may be a stand-alone evaluation or combined with an outcome-oriented evaluation that identifies project effects.

Those for whom an evaluation is conducted- for example, those who commission the evaluation and sign the contract, and sponsoring or funding agencies of the project to be evaluated. These are the groups to whom the evaluators are directly accountable.