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Evaluation has become an important instrument for rational governance and is used in an increasing number of countries and policy fields. Recent developments at the global, national and local level are changing the conditions and functions of evaluation worldwide. This book examines current global development trends and changing demands for evaluation. It addresses issues surrounding professionalisation and globalisation, examining the need to strengthen accountability for social development in various different policy fields, regions and countries to improve governance and its impacts on social betterment. It also considers issues of quality, utility and further education and the upgrading of evaluation in a broad variety of different organisations, such as multilateral donor organisations, national public administrations, private consultancies, civil-society organisations, universities, and research institutes. With contributions from 30 different countries, this book combines a broad variety of viewpoints to examine the global future of evaluation.
Contents
Acknowledgements Note on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Foreword; Marco Segone and Asela Kalugampitiya 2. Ten years of the Center for Evaluation: Review, Purview, Preview; Dieter Filsinger 3. The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges and Shared Perspectives; Reinhard Stockmann and Wolfgang Meyer PART II: ROLE OF EVALUATION IN SOCIETY 4. The Role of Evaluation in Society; Reinhard Stockmann 5. The Changing Role of Evaluation in a Changing Society; Peter Dahler-Larsen 6. The Future of Evaluation in Modern Societies; Reinhard Stockmann 7. The Future of Evaluation: Perspectives from Developing Countries; Susan D. Tamondong 8. Evaluation as a Global Phenomenon: The Development of Transnational Networks; Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella and Maria Alejandra Lucero 9. Evaluating Sustainable Development in a Global Society; Andre Martinuzzi and Wolfgang Meyer PART III: EVALUATION AS A PROFESSION: GLOBAL TRENDS 10. Does Evaluation become a Global Profession?; Wolfgang Meyer 11. Towards Professionalization? The Contribution of University-based Training Programs in Pioneer Countries; Wolfgang Meyer 12. European University-based Study Programs in Evaluation: Characteristics and Future Challenges; Verena Friedrich 13. Evaluators' Capacity Formation in a Context of Changes in Latin America; Sergio Martinic V. & Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella 14. Patterns and Influences in the Supply and Demand of Evaluation and Monitoring in Uganda's Public Sector; David Rider Smith 15. On Ensuring Educational Evaluation Quality in China; Laura Pan Luo and Yimin Yuan PART IV: NEW CHALLENGES FOR EVALUATION: PRACTICE AND UTILITY 16. New Challenges for Practice and Utility; Wolfgang Meyer 17. The Importance of Evaluation in Development Policy; Hans-Martin Boehmer 18. Institutionalizing and Streamlining Monitoring and Evaluation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt; Laila El Baradei, Doha Abdelhamid and Nermine Wally 19. Development Evaluation in the Public Sector Projects and Programs in Pakistan: An Analysis of Prevailing Issues and Constraints; Nisar Ahmad Khan 20. Political Use of Evaluation Results in Central America; Silvia Hernandez Sanchez and Sabrina Storm 21. The Role of Evaluation in Social Change: Perspectives on the Future of Evaluation from the USA; Donna M. Mertens 22. Evaluation, its Heritage and its Future; Jan-Eric Furubo 23. Evaluation between Science and Utility; Reinhard Stockmann and Wolfgang Meyer PART V: NEW CHALLENGES FOR EVALUATION: THEORY AND METHODS 24. New Challenges for Evaluation: Theory and Methods; Reinhard Stockmann 25. Cyber Society and 'Rulejungling': New Challenges for Evaluation in the 21st Century; Frans L. Leeuw 26. Ex-ante Evaluation as a Precondition for Evaluating Impact; Stefan Silvestrini 27. The Future of Impact Evaluation is Rigorous and Theory-Driven; Christoph E. Mueller and Maria Albrecht 28. Participation and Valuation: On-going Methodological Challenges; Wolfgang Meyer, Evelyn Funk and P. Linh Nguyen 29. From Evaluation Theory to Tests of Evaluation Theory?; Brad Graeme Philip Astbury PART VI: THE FUTURE OF EVALUATION: SHARED PERSPECTIVES? 30. Conclusion: Shared Perspectives for a United World of Evaluation?; Wolfgang Meyer and Reinhard Stockmann Index
