Building effective evaluation capacity : lessons from practice / Richard Boyle, Donald Lemaire, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyle, Richard, 1955-

Lemaire, Donald.

Series:

Comparative policy analysis series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--Evaluation.

Administrative agencies.

Executive departments--Evaluation.

Executive departments.

Bureaucracy--Evaluation.

Bureaucracy.

Physical Description:

202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [1999]

Contents:

Introduction: Building Evaluation Capacity / Richard Boyle, Donald Lemaire, Ray C. Rist 1

Part 1 Setting the Boundaries for Evaluation Regimes

1. Locating Evaluation: Anchoring Evaluation in the Executive or the Legislature, or Both or Elsewhere? / John Mayne, Stan Divorski, Donald Lemaire 23

2. Building Evaluation Capacity within Organizations / Richard C. Sonnichsen 53

3. Evaluation Coverage / Yoon-Shik Lee 75

Part 2 Evaluation Linkages

4. Linking Evaluation with Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring, and Auditing / Per Oyvind Bastoe 93

5. Linking Evaluation Utilization and Governance: Fundamental Challenges for Countries Building Evaluation Capacity / Ray C. Rist 111

Part 3 Evaluation Capacity Building

6. Professionalizing the Evaluation Function

Human Resource Development and the Building of Evaluation Capacity / Richard Boyle 135

7. Incentives, Constraints, and Culture-building as Instruments for the Development of Evaluation Demand / Jacques Toulemonde 153

Part 4 Institutionalizing Evaluation

The Lessons Learnt

8. Evaluation Capacity Development in Developing Countries: Applying the Lessons from Experience / R. Pablo Guerrero 177

9. Postscript: Evaluation Capacity Building

A Journey without an End / Donald Lemaire, Richard Boyle 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1560003960

OCLC:

39706971