Why Government and Non-Governmental Policies and Projects Fail Despite ‘Evaluations’: An Indicator to Measure whether Evaluation Systems Incorporate the Rules of Good Governance

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:11 — Cristina Sette

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

David H. Lempert

Source:

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, Volume 6, Issue 13, p.58-108 (2010)

URL:

http://survey.ate.wmich.edu/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/243/247

Keywords:

Accountability; Evaluation; governance; International development; Monitoring; transparency

Abstract:

The article offers an easy-to-use indicator for measuring whether organizational evaluation policies for government and nongovernmental organization spending actually protect the public interest in line with good governance and management principles or whether they serve, instead, to protect bureaucracies and hide wrongdoing under the cover of an “outside” evaluation.

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