Full Description
The impetus for this volume comes from reflecting on many years of experience, successes and failures in development evaluation in Asia and Africa, and from recent work supported by the Rockefeller Foundation on Rethinking, Reshaping, and Reforming Evaluation. The concepts, frameworks and ideas presented in this volume are a useful contribution to the ongoing efforts at rethinking, reforming and reshaping international development evaluation. They come from leading thinkers and practitioners in development, evaluation, research and academia who have recognized that development evaluation must evolve if it is to respond to the challenges of the 21st Century and play a meaningful role in social and economic transformation. This volume will be of great interest to evaluation scholars, practitioners, and students, particularly to those interested in international development projects, programs, and policies. This book will be appropriate for a wide range of courses, included Introduction to Evaluation, International Development Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation, and evaluation courses in International Development, International Relations, Public Policy, Public Health, Human Services, Sociology, and Psychology.
Contents
Preface.
Chapter 1. Searching for Approaches to Improve International Development Evaluations, Stewart I. Donaldson, Tarek Azzam, and Ross F. Conner.
Chapter 2. Evaluation in Developing Countries: What Makes It Different? Shiva Kumar and Zenda Ofir.
Chapter 3. Organizational Performance Assessment, Charles Lusthaus and Katrina Rojas.
Chapter 4. Evaluating Capacity Development, Peter Morgan.
Chapter 5. Evaluating Policy Influence, Fred Carden and Colleen Duggan.
Chapter 6. Evaluating Networks and Partnerships, Heather Creech.
Chapter 7. Evaluating Coalitions, Jared Raynor.
Chapter 8. Evaluating Sustainable Development, Steve Bass and Alastair Bradstock.
Chapter 9. Evaluating Innovation, Steve Rochlin and Sasha Radovich.
Chapter 10. Future Directions for Improving International Development Evaluations, Stewart I. Donaldson, Tarek Azzam, and Ross F. Conner.
About the Contributors.
