The Future of Evaluation

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.

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Doha Abdelhamid, King Abdulazziz Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue Forum, Vienna, Austria. Maria Albrecht, Research Assistant, Free University Berlin, Germany. Brad Graeme Philip Astbury, Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE), University of Melbourne, Australia. Laila El Baradei, Professor of Public Administration; American University in Cairo, Egypt Hans-Martin Boehmer, Visiting Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA. Peter Dahler-Larsen, Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Dieter Filsinger, Dean of the Faculty for Social Sciences, University of Applied Science, Saarbruecken, Germany Verena Friedrich, Director of Studies of the Evaluation Study Program, University of Bern, Switzerland. Evelyn Funk, Research Assistant, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Political Science, Duisburg, Germany. Jan-Eric Furubo, Audit Counselor, National Audit Office, Sweden. Silvia Hernández Sánchez, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Asela Kalugampitiya, EvalPartners Executive Coordinator, Sri Lanka Nisar Ahmad Khan, Independent evaluator, Pakistan Frans L. Leeuw, Director of the Research, Statistics and Documentation Center (WODC), Ministry of Justice, Den Haag, The Netherlands. Alejandra Lucero, Lecturer and Research fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas, National University of San Juan (UNSJ), Argentina Laura Pan Luo, Professor of Evaluation and Research in the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China. Sergio Martinic Valencia, Associate Professor, Catholic University of Chile André Martinuzzi, Associate Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Donna Mertens, Retired Professor of Education, Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., USA. Wolfgang Meyer, Assistant Professor at Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany Christoph Emanuel Müller, Lecturer for quantitative methods of social research and data analysis, Center for Evaluation, Germany. P. Linh Nguyen, Independent evaluator, Vietnam Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella, Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina Marco Segone, Director, Independent Evaluation Office at UN Women, Italy. Stefan Silvestrini, CEO of CEval GmbH, Germany. David Rider Smith, Current Chair of OECD DAC Evaluation Network Task Group on Evaluation Capacity Development, UK. Reinhard Stockmann, Professor of Sociology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany Sabrina Storm, Senior Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany. Susan D. Tamondong, Post Graduate in Social Policy from the University of Oxford, UK. Nermine Wally, founding member for the Egyptian Evaluation Network and the Middle East and North Africa Evaluation Network Yimin Yuan, Vice President of Jiangsu Agency for Educational Evaluation, China.

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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 María Alejandra Lucero
9. Evaluating Sustainable Development in a Global Society; André 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 Rodríguez-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 Hernández Sánchez 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