Internalized Self-Evaluation : An Effective and Sustainable Approach to Managing for Results
Program evaluation is often conducted by external experts, and a budget is usually allocated for such external evaluation. But, in the 23 years of experience of the author, many problems emerge with a reliance on only external evaluation. One of the problems is that the funds have not been invested in the organisational capacity or infrastructure needed to conduct, implement and sustain evaluation and its recommendations. Similarly a reliance on only internal evaluation also has its problems. An approach which I have tried to implement in a number of organisations is based on a collaborative approach to mixing internal and external evaluation advisors and evaluation approaches. To enable sustainability, in the author's view, there needs to be a maturity of the organisation's approach to internal evaluation such that there is an investment: in performance measurement and monitoring systems which can provide data continuity and facilitate evaluation; in internal evaluations, especially formative evaluation for program improvement; in staff who have competence to develop, implement and use performance measurement systems and evaluations; by top management who have competence to support the development, implementation and use of performance measurement systems and evaluations across the whole organisation, and that the management are comfortable with self-evaluation (including the self-evaluation of the Board of Directors and CEO); in an evaluation framework which is developed to guide an integrated strategic approach to evaluation across the whole organisation. This paper introduces some of the relevant concepts to suggest how organisations may plan, manage and self-assess their maturity and sustainability of self-evaluation as a basis for internalized Strategic Evaluation
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2010
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Authors: | Sharp, Colin A. |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (18 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: Malaysian Evaluation Society 2006 Conference Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 27, 2006 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.897043 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058789
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