Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Eliadis, Pearl; Rist, Ray C.; Naidoo, Indran A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written in a clear and accessible style, Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19 offers a much-needed insight on the role evaluation played during this unique and critical juncture in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000862577
• Artikelnr.: 67434319

Autorenporträt

Pearl Eliadis is Associate Professor (Professional) at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She also has a private law practice with a focus on human rights, national institutions, and democratic development and has worked with the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in several sub-Saharan and Asian countries on a range of national and global projects at the intersection of evaluation and the rule of law. She is a member of the Quebec Bar Association and the Ontario Law Society and held the position of president of the Human Rights section of the Quebec Bar for three terms until 2021. She also lectures at McGill's Faculty of Law and is a full member of McGill's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Indran A. Naidoo is the Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Rome, Italy. As former Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York, he transformed the evaluation function in terms of independence, output, and engagement, producing over 150 country and corporate evaluations. The National Evaluation Capacity series grew to become the largest and most influential platform for advancing evaluation at the government level. Previous roles included that of Deputy Director-General of M&E at the independent Public Service Commission and M&E Director at the Department of Land Affairs. He served as Vice-Chair of UN Evaluation Group (UNEG), instructor at the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), and was a founding board member of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). He holds a DPhil and post-graduate degree in Geography and Education and is the recipient of numerous awards and extensively published. Ray C. Rist is one of the creators and co-directors of the original IPDET and former president of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS). Retired from the World Bank, Dr. Rist continues to advise organizations and national governments throughout the world on how to design and build results-based M&E systems. His career includes 15 years in the U.S. Government with senior appointments in both the executive and legislative branches. He has held professorships at John Hopkins, Cornell, and George Washington Universities and has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. He has authored and edited 35 books, written more than 140 articles, and lectured in more than 85 countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo, Ray C. Rist
1. What does the Pandemic Mean for Evaluation?
Jan-Eric Furubo
2. COVID Crisis - Time to Recalibrate Evaluation
Maria Barrados, Steve Montague, and Jim Blain
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Rights: Evaluation and COVID-19 Response
Pearl Eliadis
4. Knowledge Production in a Pandemic: Supporting Accountability at Pace in
the United Kingdom and Canada
Jeremy Lonsdale and Maria Barrados
5. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Effective Use of Evaluation
in Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals
Robert Lahey and Dorothy Lucks
6. Implications for Evaluation, What We Learn from the UN and the Country
COVID-19 Response Plans, and Reflecting on Future Scenarios
Indran A. Naidoo
7. Do Lockdowns Work? Evidence from the UK
Ray Pawson
8. The Role of Evaluative Information in Parliamentary Oversight of the
Australian Government's Responses to the Pandemic
Peter Wilkins
9. Evaluation for Systems Transformations: Lessons from the Pandemic
Michael Quinn Patton
Afterword
Ray C. Rist