Gestion et émasculation des évaluations

Managing Evaluation and Emasculating it : the Canadian Experience. The canadian tradition in policy evaluation goes back to the early seventies. Less than ten years later, there were evaluation units in each ministerial department : ail policies had to be evaluated within a five years cycle. Nevertheless, this institutional victory of evaluation leaves open issues. Evaluation questions neither the grounds of policies nor alternatives to evaluated policies. There would be less deceptions if evaluation were seen as a source of information for decision-makers which cannot bring forward major changes on their own. But when major changes are envisaged, evaluation should go beyond its institutional framework and include a substantial dose of policy analysis

Political science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Social Sciences and Governance