This document provides the basic guidelines on the creation of an evaluation scheme for exercises for crisis/disaster management, including exercises aiming to the validation of solutions by practitioners in the context of realistic situations and operational environment (trials). It includes guidance for data collection and data analysis, as part of the evaluation process and assistance for the documentation of the evaluation outcome in a structured and concise manner. These guidelines are applicable to exercises of any type, method and scope. This document is applicable to operational exercises as well as to trials for testing and validating different solutions, this being technical tools, methodologies, processes, or standards.