Enhancing Evaluation Use. * Insights From Internal Evaluation Units
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.
Preface
John Mayne
1. Issues in Enhancing Evaluation Use
Bastiaan de Laat
2. Evaluator, Evaluand, Evaluation Commissioner: A Tricky Triangle
Penny Hawkins
3. Evaluation Management: Lessons From New Zealand and International Development Evaluation
Marlène Läubli Loud
4. Institutionalization and Evaluation Culture—Interplay Between the One and the Other: Lessons From the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)
Erica Wimbush
5. Reshaping Evaluation to Enhance Utilization in Scotland: The Role of Intermediary Bodies in Knowledge-to-Action Strategies
Nancy Porteous and Steve Montague
6. From Discrete Evaluations to a More Holistic Organizational Approach: The Case of the Public Health Agency of Canada
Bastiaan de Laat and Kevin Williams
7. Evaluation Use Within the European Commission (EC): Lessons for the Evaluation Commissioner
Maria Santamaria, Alan Schnur, and Deepak Thapa
8. Evaluation Policy and Practice in a Changing Environment: Evolution of the Evaluation Function in the World Health Organization (WHO)
Janet Neubecker, Matthew Ripley, and Craig Russon
9. Building for Utilization: The Case of the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Marlène Läubli Loud
10. What Can We Learn From Practitioners? Some Thoughts and Take-Home Messages for Internal Evaluation Units
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
