Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications, 2nd Edition

Chapter 26Institutionalizing and Mainstreaming Evaluation

Learning Objectives

In this chapter you will learn about the following:

• A rationale and key principles for, and definitions of, institutionalizing and mainstreaming evaluation
• Early efforts to help organizations institutionalize and mainstream evaluation
• Advances in evaluation that are of use in institutionalizing and mainstreaming evaluation
• A checklist for use in establishing a unified organizational evaluation system

We begin this concluding chapter by summarizing the book's nine themes. We subsequently address the practical culmination of these themes by discussing and illustrating steps organizations can take to institutionalize and mainstream systematic practices of program ...