Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2009 Nov;15(6 Suppl):S90-9. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e3181b61069.
With the growing demand for program evaluations, governments in the developing world and nongovernmental organizations have discovered that the pool of trained evaluators is often relatively scarce. This article explains why high-quality retrospective program evaluations require highly trained evaluators and rich databases. The US Department of Agriculture's Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics program and the Global Development Network-Gates Foundation Promoting Innovative Programs From the Developing World demonstration illustrate two approaches that public and nonprofit managers have adopted to build evaluation capacity in their programmatic areas.
随着对项目评估的需求不断增长，发展中国家和非政府组织的政府部门发现，受过培训的评估人员往往相对较少。本文解释了为什么高质量的回溯项目评估需要高度训练有素的评估人员和丰富的数据库。美国农业部的经济研究创新与发展拨款计划和全球发展网络盖茨基金会推广发展中国家创新计划示范项目说明了公共和非营利部门管理人员在其项目领域建立评估能力所采用的两种方法。
