Mandates of BES

The purposes of this Society are to:

1. Promote scientific and educational purposes, in connection with the science and practice of evaluation.
2. Improve evaluation theory, practice, and methods; increase evaluation use; promote evaluation as a profession, and support the contribution of evaluation to the generation of theory and knowledge about effective human action.
3. Engage in a diversity of activities and enter into, perform, and carry out contracts of any kind necessary or convenient to, or incidental to, the accomplishment of any one or more of the nonprofit purposes of the Society.
4. Non-Profit Character. The Society is a not-for-profit, non-political organization organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.

For achieving the objectives of BES, the Society may do any or all of the following:

• Accept donations, gifts, contributions, or subscriptions, in cash or in kind from individuals, institutions or companies. Foreign donations may be accepted after complying with laws and rules of the government regulating such matters.
• Hold, acquire, purchase, hire, lease or sell any moveable or immovable property and also invest money or property of the Society upon such security and in such manner as may be determined by the Society.
• Borrow or raise any money required for the Society upon such terms and in such manner as may be determined by the Society.
• File, prosecute, defend, compromise or refer to arbitration any suit or legal proceeding for or against the Society.
• Enter into any arrangement or agreement with any government department or authority (national, local or municipal), public or quasi-public bodies or bilateral and multilateral foreign donor agency in the interest of the Society.