The management of public funds must be carried out based on the principles of economy, effectiveness and efficiency. For this reason, it is so important to design adequate planning, as well as to subject all actions carried out within the framework of the activity of public administrations to a rigorous, external and objective examination.

The evaluation of public policies allows:

• Visibility and transparency in public interventions.
• Obtaining reliable data on the results derived from the implementation of public plans, programs or projects.
• Compliance with the legal requirement of evaluation of certain actions financed with state or community public funds and verification of the conformity of the execution processes with the application standards and criteria.
• Measurement of the medium-term impact of public policies.