This manual is aimed at evaluators and working in the areas of international development. This guide explains how evaluations can be performed effectively. It highlights how one can make evaluations useful and more meaningful by understanding conceptual issues and how evaluations can contribute to changing mindsets and empowering stakeholders. In addition, this guide presents core guiding principles and pointers on how to design and facilitate evaluations that matter and how one could get the primary intended users and stakeholders to contribute effectively to the evaluation process.