While technical evaluation capacities (the so-called supply side) are paramount to produce high-quality evaluative evidence, an enabling environment for evaluation is necessary to ensure it is actually used for decision-making.
This toolkit attempts to create a better understanding of what advocacy is and how it can be used practically to build an enabling environment for evaluation. The toolkit provides a series of incremental steps that can be taken to effectively advocate for national evaluation policies and systems that are equity- focused and gender-responsive.
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A toolkit to develop advocacy strategies to strengthen an enabling environment for evaluation
The toolkit will be useful for civil society organizations (CSOs), Vol- untary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) as well as governments, parliaments, academia, evaluation units from development cooperation agencies and other development partners to get familiar with key advocacy concepts and techniques that can help in building an enabling environment for evaluation. It will equally be useful for other stakeholders, such as students, journalists and managers who want to expand their understanding of a structured approach to sustained and effective advocacy to promote a culture of evaluation.
Advocating for Evaluation
In many instances, the demand and use of evaluation to inform policy-making is not as strong as it should be. In these cases, an advocacy strategy to strengthen an enabling environment for evaluation is necessary.
Advocating for Evaluation A toolkit to develop advocacy strategies to strengthen an enabling environment for evaluation In partnership with: