This evaluation report was commissioned by the Norad Evaluation Department in order to respond to the need for understanding whether and how the evaluations it conducts are used, and how the systems for learning from and using those evaluations can be improved. Evaluation use is important because, unlike basic research, evaluation is intended to provide accountability for achieving results from the use of funding, and learning from experience in ways that can be put to practical use. The extensive literature on evaluation use suggests that evaluation can affect policy and operational decisions. Much attention focuses on the explicit use of evaluation through the implementation of recommendations. While this is an important kind of evaluation use, this study highlights a number of ways in which evaluations can have more indirect influence on actions, perceptions, and even how specific issues are conceptualized. In conducting this evaluation the team used a mixed-methods approach. This entailed document reviews, interviews with key informants, case studies of four specific evaluations, detailed review of the content and structure of related evaluation reports, a citation search for Norad evaluations, and a comparative organizational analysis of evaluation units in Norad peer organizations.