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An Update on Evaluation in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
Get PDFThis short paper updates the evaluation scene in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Specifically, it covers four aspects of that scene: (1) evidence on the growing number of job opportunities for evaluators in the region, (2) news about national-level evaluation organizations, (3) professional development courses available in 2005, and (4) the internal evaluation system supported by the Brazilian federal government
Is Cost Analysis Underutilized in Decision Making?
Get PDFIs cost analysis underutilized in decision making? Research suggests it is
A Review of the Chinese National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation
Get PDFChina is now in a transitioning stage from planned economy to market economy. There is a growing interest in China to have a strong evaluation process in place so that planning and decisions can be based on valid and credible information. Evaluation also provides a guide for resource allocation
Monitoring and Cost-Effectiveness in Development Management
No full textI would like to argue that the tasks undertaken by the large multilateral and bilateral donor agencies require a particularly high analytic standard, but several incentives that influence development practice—political incentives for donor and recipient governments, organizational incentives for development agencies, and personal incentives for managers—have led to positive bias and analytic compromise.
The central challenge in the management of development assistance is to maintain this kind of consciousness—this analytic perspective—among the corps of professional staff. Some might like to think that development can be achieved by getting governments to liberalize markets or by getting local participation in project management, and these may well be important tactics. Intuition suggests and experience teaches, however, that there can be no formula for successful development. Each investment presents a unique design and management challenge. There are two problems in maintaining the will and the capacity toaddress this challenge: an incentive problem and one we can call intellectual or cognitive. The key to solving both problems, or so I will argue, is strong evaluation
Client Impropriety
Get PDFThe article discusses ethical issues around using information from responses to proposal requests without obtaining consent or providing compensation to the original authors.
The Problem of Free Will in Program Evaluation
Get PDFFree will is the freedom to start a program: will power is what it takes to complete it.
Actualización sobre la evaluación en la región de América Latina y el Caribe
Get PDFEste breve documento es una actualización sobre el ámbito de la evaluación en la región LAC (América Latina y el Caribe). Más específicamente, incide sobre cuatro aspectos de dicho ámbito: (1) evidencia sobre el número cada vez mayor de oportunidades de empleo para evaluadores/as en la región, (2) noticias sobre organizaciones nacionales de evaluación, (3) cursos de especialización disponibles en el 2005, y (4) el sistema de evaluación interna impulsado por el gobierno federal de Brasil
Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 10(4), October 2004
Get PDFThe most recent issue of Evaluation contains six articles, one contribution to A Visit to the World of Practice, and News from the Community respectively
The Value of Evaluation Standards: A Comparative Assessment
Get PDFFollowing an exposition of the ethical dimension, professional role and democratic rationale of standards in the evaluation community, this paper proposes an assessment framework for rating evaluation standards, illustrates its use on a sample of published norms and offers lessons for the participatory elaboration of global evaluation standards
Evaluation in Canada
Get PDFThe Canadian provinces continue to be a source of evaluation-related activities and events such as Evaluation 2005, Beaulac, Goodine, and Aubry’s work on a reportcard of homelessness in Ottawa, the 2005 International Program for Development Evaluation jointly sponsored by the World Bank Group and Carleton University, and the Canadian Evaluation Society Student Case Competition and Paper Contest, to name but a few. For those interested in detailed information on these and other Canadian evaluation news and events please visit the Canadian Evaluation Society Website