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Several moral arguments - such as measuring the true impacts of programmes and policies and informing the just allocation of scarce resources[1] - can be made for why evaluation is an important tool for improving development effectiveness. The framework proposed by the authors suggests a need to complement "do no harm" with additional emphasis on ' I tackling bad i ' and ' I doing good' i to inform two dimensions of evaluation work: ethics for evaluators and ethics for evaluations. The chapter presents an argument for professionalisation of evaluation, which requires evaluators adopt ' I a tighter logic of evaluation practices grounded in ethics i ', particularly to distinguish evaluation from social research, auditing, and inspection. The author describes the history of evaluation and reasons why current standards focus on evaluator practices when such standards are as applicable to evaluation funders and users. [Extracted from the article]