The main objectives of an impact evaluation are to: • Assess impact of IFAD operations in a quantitative manner and be able to attribute impact to operations funded by IFAD, while also paying due attention to qualitative aspects that form the critical pillars of IFAD’s development approach; apply and test innovative evaluation methodologies and processes; and generate valuable evidence for other evaluations done by IOE, such as country strategy and programme evaluations, corporate-level evaluations and evaluation synthesis reports.