This collection of works represents the results of a 'fee for services' contract with the National Evaluation Council of the Policy for Social Development in Mexico (CONEVAL), enforced between 2007 and 2008. The goal of the job was to provide support to CONEVAL in the strengthening of the general guidelines of evaluation of the federal programmers of the federal public administration that were published in March 2007 by CONEVAL itself, the ministry of the treasury and public credit and the public function. It was for such a purpose that the team of the World Bank worked on four different reports that looked at providing an integral analysis of the guidelines. The four reports include: an executive summary, an institutional analysis of the guidelines, a management tools analysis of the guidelines, and an analysis of the basic information within the context of the guidelines. The guidelines were published to consolidate the vision of the Mexican government to create a 'menu of evaluations' aimed at providing different key users within the public administration with performance information that will serve their different needs. It is within this context that the analysis had as its general objective to analyze the results of the first year of the implementation of the 2007 guidelines and also to reflect on the content of the guidelines based on international experience.