Isabelle Bourgeois
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3911554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Isabelle Bourgeois |
| PRENOMES | Isabelle |
| SOBRENOME | Bourgeois |
| ASSINATURA | BOURGEOIS I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2381-3093 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Building evaluation capacity in the community sector over five years
Background: Community organizations are essential in addressing health and social needs for populations often underserved by traditional healthcare systems. Recognizing the importance of program evaluation, these organizations increasingly seek to improve their services, demonstrate impact, and secure funding. However, they frequently face barriers such as limited resources, time constraints, and lack of in-house expertise. Evaluation training pr…
Evaluating Complex Health Interventions through Contribution Analysis
Background: Health interventions often involve complex, multifaceted components and dynamic, nonlinear effects that challenge traditional experimental methods like randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Contribution Analysis (CA) offers a theory-based impact evaluation approach that shifts the focus from solely attributing outcomes to interventions to understanding their contributions within specific contexts. Despite its widespread use in fields s…
Evaluation Capacity Building
There is a growing need for evaluation capacity building (ECB) in community organizations; however, learning opportunities for both organizations and post-secondary students are limited, particularly opportunities to apply evaluation concepts in practice. This practice note describes four initiatives and highlights the ways in which experiential learning can be leveraged through community-university collaborations to provide responsive, hands-on …
Strengthening Evaluation Capacity Building Practice Through Competition
Despite the attention evaluation capacity building (ECB) has received over the past several decades, surprisingly few opportunities for learning about ECB exist. In response to this need, the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, in collaboration with ECB scholars across Canada, created a case competition focused exclusively on ECB—the Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC 3 ). Twenty individuals interested in learning about ECB…
Exploring the Edges
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is a well-established domain of scholarship and practice within the broader field of evaluation. Stemming from a concern to ensure sustainable and useful evaluation practices in organizations, ECB draws on several evaluation theories and approaches such as collaborative evaluation and utilization-focused evaluation. In a recent integrative review, the authors and their colleagues identified other theories, frame…
Capturing Evaluation Capacity
This article surveys the literature on organizational evaluation capacity (EC) instruments. Over the past 25 years, articles have been published in four waves covering the development of organizational evaluation capacity models, surveys of the evaluation capacity and practice landscape, the development of EC instruments, and their replication and adaptation. Altogether, the authors identified 20 studies applying 16 EC instruments. Several studie…
Learning From Evaluation Data
Evaluation competitions, a process that has existed for more than three decades, are a mechanism to promote program evaluation and enhance evaluation capacity. Integrating these competitions into evaluation education extends traditional teaching models beyond theory-dense learning contexts. This practice note delves into the Evaluation Case Competition Challenge (EC 3 ), a case challenge designed to advance knowledge on evaluation capacity buildi…
Evaluation Literacy and Use in Community Organizations
Past research on evaluation capacity in community organizations has focused on their capacity to conduct rather than use evaluation. This study sought to address this gap by exploring evaluation use and the supporting processes, systems, and structures in the community sector. The authors administered an online survey to 102 individuals working or involved in community organizations to measure their perceptions of their organization’s capacity to…
The Science and Practice of Evaluation Capacity Building
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has become an integral part of the practice and profession of evaluation. Over 20 years, much has been learned about ECB, yet substantial room exists for continuing to expand our ECB scholarship and practice. In this special issue, the authors share insights from recent scholarship and training efforts that can serve as a launching point for the next generation of ECB
Developing an Evaluation Training Program for Community-Based Organizations
Community-based organizations increasingly recognize the value of evaluative insights in informing decision-making and improving their services. However, these organizations often lack the capacity to conduct and use evaluations, and traditional evaluation capacity building (ECB) activities are not always adapted to their particular contexts. This practice note introduces an innovative evaluation training program for small grassroots community-ba…
Concluding Remarks
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) seeks to provide individuals and organizations with the knowledge, skills, and systems that they need to make evaluation an ongoing part of their everyday activities. This special issue sought to advance ECB by bringing to light original empirical research as well as practical applications of various ECB approaches. This concluding article provides an overview of the eight contributions comprising the special is…
Meeting the Challenge
This practice note shares key learnings from the inaugural Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC 3 ) held by the Max Bell School of Public Policy in April 2023. The purpose is to give readers an opportunity to consider how to shape evaluation capacity in general and within a municipal context. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is a multifaceted concept to support shared learning about and understanding of evaluation. Strands of learning about E…
Mapping the evaluation capacity building landscape
Examining the competencies required by evaluation capacity builders in community-based organizations
Bridging Evaluation Theory and Practice
This paper provides a thematic review of Mayne’s contributions to Canadian federal evaluation in order to describe his influence on how the function has evolved over the past 40 years. Key themes explored in the paper include Mayne’s influence on the development of a results-based culture in federal departments and agencies, as well as his conceptual grounding of evaluation activities through theory-based evaluation approaches and, most notably, …
Interorganizational evaluation capacity building in the public, health and community sectors
Evaluation capacity building is generally conceptualized as occurring either at the individual or the organizational levels. However, ongoing societal crises require organizations within or across sectors to work together to find solutions to complex problems and to evaluate joint initiatives. Interorganizational evaluation capacity is required to ensure the ongoing conduct and use of evaluations to support interorganizational decision-making and…
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Translating Evaluation Policy Into Practice in Government Organizations
Organizational evaluation policies describe how evaluation practices should be structured and implemented. As such, they provide key insights into organizational priorities and values regarding evaluation. However, the link between evaluation policies and how evaluation policies translate into concrete practices has seldom been explored until now. Our study examines the implementation of two Canadian federal government evaluation policies over a …
Laying a Solid Foundation for the Next Generation of Evaluation Capacity Building
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) continues to attract the attention and interest of scholars and practitioners. Over the years, models, frameworks, strategies, and practices related to ECB have been developed and implemented. Although ECB is highly contextual, the evolution of knowledge in this area depends on learning from past efforts in a structured approach. The purpose of the present article is to integrate the ECB literature in evaluation…
Evaluating the evaluators
Most Canadian federal government departments and agencies are required to conduct a “neutral assessment” of their evaluation function every five years. Such assessments should focus on the capacity of the evaluation units to produce high‐quality evaluation reports which serve the needs of organizational decision‐makers. Our study sought to analyze neutral assessment reports produced over a ten‐year period. Overall, our review suggests that the ne…
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Understanding Dimensions of Organizational Evaluation Capacity
Organizational evaluation capacity building has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. However, the actual dimensions of evaluation capacity have not been clearly articulated through empirical research. This study sought to address this gap by identifying the key dimensions of evaluation capacity in Canadian federal government organizations. The methodology used, based on Leithwood and Montgomery’s Innovation Profile approach, featu…
Laying a Solid Foundation for the Next Generation of Evaluation Capacity Building
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) continues to attract the attention and interest of scholars and practitioners. Over the years, models, frameworks, strategies, and practices related to ECB have been developed and implemented. Although ECB is highly contextual, the evolution of knowledge in this area depends on learning from past efforts in a structured approach. The purpose of the present article is to integrate the ECB literature in evaluation…
Translating Evaluation Policy Into Practice in Government Organizations
Organizational evaluation policies describe how evaluation practices should be structured and implemented. As such, they provide key insights into organizational priorities and values regarding evaluation. However, the link between evaluation policies and how evaluation policies translate into concrete practices has seldom been explored until now. Our study examines the implementation of two Canadian federal government evaluation policies over a …
Evaluating the evaluators
Most Canadian federal government departments and agencies are required to conduct a “neutral assessment” of their evaluation function every five years. Such assessments should focus on the capacity of the evaluation units to produce high‐quality evaluation reports which serve the needs of organizational decision‐makers. Our study sought to analyze neutral assessment reports produced over a ten‐year period. Overall, our review suggests that the ne…
L'élaboration et la mise en œuvre des recommandations issues d'évaluations de programmes au gouvernement du Canada
Sommaire Au gouvernement du Canada, les rapports d'évaluation de programmes contiennent des recommandations qui visent l'amélioration de leurs modalités et de leur mise en œuvre. L'élaboration de recommandations peut constituer une étape laborieuse de la démarche évaluative et mobiliser plusieurs parties prenantes. Cependant, peu d'études ont été réalisées afin de déterminer comment ces recommandations sont élaborées et si elles sont ensuite mise…
Performance measurement as precursor to organizational evaluation capacity building
The widespread use of performance measurement and program evaluation in public administrations worldwide has been met with varying degrees of success, in terms of increased transparency and effectiveness. In many cases, the lack of impact of these functions is attributed to insufficient organizational knowledge and capacity to implement proper monitoring and evaluation systems. Both of these management tools are recognized in their own right as h…
Le modèle social allemand en mutation
Le modèle social allemand est en crise. L’hypertrophie de l’Etat social inhibe la dynamique de croissance de la première économie européenne. Mais sans une économie performante et prospère, comment continuer à assurer une protection sociale satisfaisante et équitable ? Depuis 2003, le gouvernement Schröder et les partenaires sociaux ont commencé à relever ce défi. Garants de l’Etat social, les pouvoirs publics ont entrepris d’en infléchir les nor…
Exploration of the Validity and Usefulness of an Integrated Performance Indicator for Postgraduate Scholarship Programs
Performance indicators used to evaluate postgraduate scholarship programs in the natural sciences and engineering are usually long-term in nature and focus on such measures as time to completion, employment status, employment sector, and annual income. These measures are time-consuming and costly to collect and analyze. The information provided by these measures, therefore, should truly be useful to both program staff and senior managers responsi…
Les médias à l’ère du numérique
La télévision est en sursis. Bientôt, elle ne sera plus le seul média de référence : inexorablement, Internet poursuit sa montée en puissance, et le portable se métamorphose en téléviseur. La numérisation a brouillé les frontières entre les divers moyens de communication électroniques : audiovisuel et télécommunications convergent vers un nouvel ensemble aux contours indéfinis. Comment l'Europe réagit-elle à ces mutations ? Comment en particulier…
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Organizational Capacity To Do and Use Evaluation
Despite increasing interest in the integration of evaluative inquiry into organizational functions and culture, the availability of empirical research addressing organizational capacity building to do and use evaluation is limited. This exploratory descriptive survey of internal evaluators in Canada asked about evaluation capacity building in the context of organizational characteristics (learning, support structures), evaluative activity and use…
Informing Evaluation Capacity Building Through Profiling Organizational Capacity for Evaluation
According to the literature published on the topic, the development of an organization’s capacity to do and use evaluation typically follows four stages: traditional evaluation, characterized by externally mandated evaluation activities; awareness and experimentation, during which organizational members learn about evaluation and its benefits by participating in a number of evaluation-related activities; evaluation implementation, the stage at wh…
Understanding Organization Capacity for Evaluation
The special issue is devoted to the examination of organizational capacity for evaluation and evaluation capacity building (ECB) through empirical inquiry. The compilation consists of two quantitative surveys of evaluators and seven single or multiple case studies across a broad array of organizations in a diverse contexts (e.g., east-central Ontario, California, Hawaii, Minnesota, and Israel). In this final article, the authors look across the c…
Neutral Assessment of the National Research Council Canada Evaluation Function
Federal government departments and agencies are required to conduct a neutral assessment of their evaluation function once every five years under the Treasury Board Secretariat’s Policy on Evaluation (2009). This article describes the National Research Council’s experience conducting the first neutral assessment of its evaluation function. Based on learning from this first assessment, best practices that NRC intends on replicating, as well as les…
Measuring Organizational Evaluation Capacity in the Canadian Federal Government
The development of organizational evaluation capacity has emerged in recent years as one mechanism through which evaluators can extend their influence and foster evaluation utilization. However, organizational evaluation capacity is not always easy to define, and internal evaluators sometimes struggle with the identification of concrete activities that might increase their organization’s evaluation capacity. This article describes an organization…
Understanding Dimensions of Organizational Evaluation Capacity
Organizational evaluation capacity building has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. However, the actual dimensions of evaluation capacity have not been clearly articulated through empirical research. This study sought to address this gap by identifying the key dimensions of evaluation capacity in Canadian federal government organizations. The methodology used, based on Leithwood and Montgomery’s Innovation Profile approach, featu…
Measuring Evaluation Capacity in Ontario Public Health Units
This article presents a study of organizational capacity to do and use evaluation, conducted in 32 public health units in the province of Ontario. Methods include an organizational self-assessment using an instrument developed by Bourgeois, Toews, Whynot, and Lamarche (2013) as well as key informant interviews. Overall, our findings point to the fact that evaluation capacity is still developing in Ontario public health units; factors that support…
Performance measurement as precursor to organizational evaluation capacity building
The widespread use of performance measurement and program evaluation in public administrations worldwide has been met with varying degrees of success, in terms of increased transparency and effectiveness. In many cases, the lack of impact of these functions is attributed to insufficient organizational knowledge and capacity to implement proper monitoring and evaluation systems. Both of these management tools are recognized in their own right as h…
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Strategic Evaluation Utilization in the Canadian Federal Government
Given the potential of the federal program evaluation function to inform decision-making at the highest levels of government, this project sought to investigate the nature and extent to which program evaluation findings are used as part of spending reviews and other reallocation exercises in selected government organizations. The multiple case study design used in this investigation included a qualitative content analysis of evaluation reports pu…
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L’implication des parties prenantes dans la démarche évaluative
Our cross-cutting overview of the three papers that make up this thematic segment shows that each of the papers addresses the issue of stakeholder involvement quite differently from the others. We focus here on the key messages from each of these papers in order to highlight success factors and lessons learned for stakeholder participation in evaluation. Success factors related to collaborative approaches to evaluation are also presented througho…
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Introduction
Special Section: Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation / Implication des parties prenantes en évaluation
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Author Biography Isabelle Bourgeois, Editor, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation Associate Professor, Ecole nationale d'administration publique
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Evaluation and Performance Assessment (36 obras) · Political science (36 obras) · Computer Science (23 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (19 obras) · Business (18 obras) · Philosophy (18 obras) · Philosophy (17 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Capacity building (14 obras)