The Future of Evaluation Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.

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, Auditlãž