The Role of Associations in Professionalization Process of Evaluation
The Role of Associations in Professionalization Process of Evaluation

Summary/Abstract: For the last two decades, professional associations played a very importantrole in promoting evaluation of public policies and programmes as a discipline,strengthening the evaluation capacities in order toincrease the usage and the quality ofevaluations studies as well as in contributing to the development of the evaluation culture atnational level. One of the dimensions that raised the interest of theoreticians in relation tothe involvement of professional associations was their contribution in termsofprofessionalization of evaluation, what are the key elements that support this process aswell as their dynamics. The aim of this article is to briefly describe the main concepts relatedto the discipline and profession of evaluation, based on the existing literature, with a focuson the role of professional associations in development process of evaluation, includingrelated profession, especially at national level.

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