Enhancing Evaluation Use: Insights from Internal Evaluation Units offers 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. INDICE: Preface - Marlène Läubli Loud1. Issues in Enhancing Evaluation Use - John Mayne2. Evaluator, Evaluand, Evaluation Commissioner: A Tricky Triangle - Bastiaan de Laat3. Evaluation Management: Lessons From New Zealand and International Development Evaluation - Penny Hawkins4. Institutionalization and Evaluation Culture—Interplay Between the One and the Other: Lessons From the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) - Marlène Läubli Loud5. Reshaping Evaluation to Enhance Utilization in Scotland: The Role of Intermediary Bodies in Knowledge-to-Action Strategies - Erica Wimbush6. From Discrete Evaluations to a More Holistic Organizational Approach: The Case of the Public Health Agency of Canada - Nancy Porteous and Steve Montague7. Evaluation Use Within the European Commission (EC): Lessons for the Evaluation Commissioner - Bastiaan de Laat and Kevin Williams8. 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 Thapa9. Building for Utilization: The Case of the International Labour Organization (ILO) - Janet Neubecker, Matthew Ripley, and Craig Russon10. What Can We Learn From Practitioners? Some Thoughts and Take-Home Messages for Internal Evaluation Units - Marlène Läubli LoudIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors
- ISBN: 978-1-4522-0547-2
- Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 11/06/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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