| Description |
1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Series |
Comparative Policy Evaluation Ser |
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Comparative Policy Evaluation Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Changing Bureaucracies -- Thoughts on the Dynamic Relationship between Evaluation, Bureaucracy, and Adaptability -- What This Book is About -- Origins of the Concept for the Book -- The Approach Taken in This Book -- Audiences for This Book -- What Considerations Does This Book Discuss? -- What is Bureaucracy? -- Bureaucracy under Fire -- The Case for Bureaucracy -- Responding to the Need for Change -- A Role for Evaluation? |
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What Topics are Covered within This Book? -- Notes -- References -- Part I Working within Bureaucratic Constraints -- 2 Feedback in Public Agencies: A Missing Engine of Organizational Learning? -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework for Studying Feedback in Public Agencies -- Agencies as Systems with Feedback -- Specificity of the Public Sector -- Tracing Feedback in Practice: The Case of Polish Ministries -- Study Aim and Method -- Findings of the Study -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Interview Protocol (Excerpt) -- Part 4 -- Knowledge -- 4A. STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE -- Goals and Effects |
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4B. OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE -- Efficiency and Legality -- 4C. CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE -- Trends, Changes -- Funding Information -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Evaluation, Bureaucracy, and Agility: An African Story -- Introduction -- A Multi-Level Story of Assessing Effectiveness -- Lines of Credit to South African Banks -- South African Country Evaluation -- Comprehensive Evaluation of the Bank's Development Results -- MOPAN Assessment of the AfDB -- Self-Strengthening Bureaucracy -- Predictive Management -- The Same Story Told from the Standpoint of Complexity |
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Lines of Credit to South African Banks -- Failure to Meet Predictable Objectives -- Dealing with Unpredictability -- The Challenge of Agility: An Example -- South African Country Evaluation -- Comprehensive Evaluation of the AfDB's Development Results -- MOPAN Assessment of the AfDB -- No Standardized Approach for Assessing Agility -- A Fictional Story of Agility -- Adaptive Management -- The Fictional Case of Emerging/Black Farmers -- The Fictional Case of Loans in Low Income Countries -- Accounting for Learning -- Walking on Two Feet -- Two Mutually Exclusive Mindsets |
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One More Layer of Accountability and Bureaucracy? -- Walking on Two Feet -- Shifting From One Foot to the Other -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Accountable for Adaption: How Independent Evaluation Can Support Adaptive Programming within Bureaucracies -- Introduction -- International Development Bureaucracies in the "Age of Complexity" -- Evaluators Bridging the Gap Between Predictive and Adaptive Management -- Introduction to the Program -- Introduction to the Evaluation -- Developing an Adaptive Logframe -- Taking a Developmental Evaluation Approach to Performance Monitoring |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Conclusion |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tyrrell, Tony
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| ISBN |
9781000260144 |
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1000260143 |
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