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Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units

Editat de Marlene Laubli Loud, John Mayne
en Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 4 apr 2013
Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Unitsoffers invaluable insights from real evaluators who share strategies they have adopted through their own experiences in evaluation. Readers will learn about the challenges, solutions, and lessons drawn from the experience of evaluators working in a wide range of organizations. Referencing the latest literature, contributors discuss factors that help or undermine attempts to foster an evaluative thinking and learning culture within an organization. Applicable in a wide range of situations, their accounts demonstrate the initiative and innovative thinking they use to address challenges in various, sometimes complex, evaluation settings. Questions at the end of each chapter stimulate thought and discussions about the issues raised and allow readers to apply their findings to their own situations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781483310718
ISBN-10: 148331071X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 mm
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

This book is valuable to those involved in the evaluation of public organisations. Particularly insightful is the realization that similar challenges faced in various organizations are addressed with very different solutions.
"Overall, this is a good book that is neatly organized. The book can be used in teaching because the examples provide realistic flesh and blood to supplement new students’ learning of dry evaluation theory. Pedagogical discussion questions follow each chapter...Let me add that, as a reader, I feel reassured that the editors and authors collectively are experienced and competent."

Cuprins

Preface - Marlène Läubli Loud
1. Issues in Enhancing Evaluation Use - John Mayne
2. Evaluator, Evaluand, Evaluation Commissioner: A Tricky Triangle - Bastiaan de Laat
3. Evaluation Management: Lessons From New Zealand and International Development Evaluation - Penny Hawkins
4. Institutionalization and Evaluation Culture—Interplay Between the One and the Other: Lessons From the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) - Marlène Läubli Loud
5. Reshaping Evaluation to Enhance Utilization in Scotland: The Role of Intermediary Bodies in Knowledge-to-Action Strategies - Erica Wimbush
6. From Discrete Evaluations to a More Holistic Organizational Approach: The Case of the Public Health Agency of Canada - Nancy Porteous and Steve Montague
7. Evaluation Use Within the European Commission (EC): Lessons for the Evaluation Commissioner - Bastiaan de Laat and Kevin Williams
8. Evaluation Policy and Practice in a Changing Environment: Evolution of the Evaluation Function in the World Health Organization (WHO) - Maria Santamaria, Alan Schnur, and Deepak Thapa
9. Building for Utilization: The Case of the International Labour Organization (ILO) - Janet Neubecker, Matthew Ripley, and Craig Russon
10. What Can We Learn From Practitioners? Some Thoughts and Take-Home Messages for Internal Evaluation Units - Marlène Läubli Loud
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Descriere

Written from the insider's perspective, this text helps organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services