AI-Powered Development Project Evaluator

How does it work?

  1. Describe: enter your project’s title and description in the provided fields, in French, English or any other language. The report will be written in the same language as your description.
  2. Evaluate: click the button to start the analysis. Our AI, powered by Google Gemini, examines your text in seconds.
  3. Improve: receive a structured report including an overall score, as well as detailed scores and comments for each of the 6 OECD-DAC criteria: Relevance, Coherence, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, and Sustainability.

Good to know: this tool reviews how a project is designed, based only on the text you provide. It does not measure actual results. The Impact and Sustainability scores tell you how plausible these outcomes look on paper, not what happened in the field. Use the report as a structured second opinion to strengthen your proposal, not as a substitute for an evaluation.

The 6 OECD-DAC criteria in brief

  • Relevance: do the objectives match the needs of the people and the area concerned? Mostly a matter of design, to be checked again whenever the context shifts.
  • Coherence: does the project fit with what others are doing (external coherence), and with its own organisation, values and other projects (internal coherence)?
  • Effectiveness: are the stated objectives being reached? This requires clear objectives from the outset.
  • Efficiency: are resources used wisely? Could the same results be achieved at lower cost, in the same time, by other means?
  • Impact: what longer-term effects, positive or negative, intended or not, does the project produce, whether economic, social, political or environmental?
  • Sustainability: how likely are the benefits to last once external support ends, financially, institutionally, socially and environmentally?

Why six criteria are not enough

The OECD-DAC criteria offer a solid all-purpose base, but they leave out much of what makes a project work: the quality of partnerships, trust between stakeholders, governance, adaptability, creativity. Choosing, weighting and ranking criteria is never neutral, since it expresses what a project and its partners value. That choice is best made together, with project holders, funders, evaluators and the people the project serves, ideally before the project is written. In practice, the six criteria should be combined with complementary or specific criteria and cross-cutting criteria such as gender or the environment, and used as a set rather than skimmed one by one.

This tool applies the six OECD-DAC criteria only: treat its report as a first reading, then build the grid that fits your project. To go further (in French): EVAL’s page on evaluation criteria and how to formulate evaluation questions from criteria.

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  • Informational Purposes: the analyses generated by the AI are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute professional advice or recommendations.
  • Disclaimer of Liability: we disclaim all liability for any decisions, financial or otherwise, made based on the results from this tool. Use of this application is at your own risk.
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