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- Title
Strategy evaluation: Experience at the International Development Research Centre.
- Authors
Wind, Tricia; Carden, Fred
- Abstract
This chapter examines how the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has framed and used strategic evaluations. Drawing from IDRC's experience, the authors look at Henry Mintzberg's ideas on strategy formation, and explore potential implications for evaluation in an organization that resembles what Mintzberg calls an 'adhocracy.' The International Development Research Centre is a Canadian Crown Corporation that supports research in developing countries and undertakes evaluative work at different levels: strategic evaluations, program and project evaluation, and ongoing learning. 'Strategic' evaluations examine issues that cut across the Centre's 18 programs. They have focused on programming modalities and broad corporate result areas like capacity building and policy influence. In a decentralized, utilization-focused approach to evaluation, IDRC has taken the view that strategic-level evaluation requires separate studies, as opposed to rolling up data from program or project evaluations. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.
- Subjects
CANADA; INTERNATIONAL Development Research Centre (Canada); MINTZBERG, Henry, 1939-; STRATEGIC planning; PROJECT evaluation; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
New Directions for Evaluation, 2010, Vol 2010, Issue 128, p29
- ISSN
1097-6736
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ev.344