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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813226603321

Titolo

Influencing change : : building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance / / Ray C. Rist, Marie-Helene Boily, Frederic Martin, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2011

ISBN

1-283-06596-7

9786613065964

0-8213-8497-X

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 275 pages : illustrations ; ; 25 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

RistRay C

BoilyMarie-Helene

MartinFrédéric

Disciplina

658.4/06

Soggetti

Organizational change

Administrative agencies - Evaluation

Executive departments - Evaluation

Bureaucracy - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt



from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? / Robert Picciotto -- Capacity building and the challenges of development / Elizabeth McAllister -- Perspectives on evaluation capacity building / Steffen B. Nielson and Karin Attström -- Lessons learned in capacity building: where do we go from here? / Stefan Dahlgren.

Sommario/riassunto

In the first section of this book, four chapters explore how evaluation can influence and interact with the change process in policy and institutional development. Wijayatilake recalls a convincing and riveting story about how evaluation was introduced in Sri-Lanka and what kind of striking results could be achieved in a few years through a progressive pragmatic approach and strong leadership. Wiesner reviews the role of evaluation in the formation of macroeconomic policy in Latin America and outlines the role of demand for improved results and performance and of the accountability from the po