The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in the Americas

This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in American countries from various perspectives. It presents prior developments of evaluation and current states of 11 American countries and three transnational organisations concerning three dimensions, namely the political, social and professional system. These detailed country reports, which have been written by selected researchers and authors of the respective countries, lead to a concluding comparison and synthesis. This is the second of four volumes of the compendium The Institutionalisation of Evaluation. The first volume on 'Europe' was published in 2020. After the publication of the 'Americas' - volume in 2021 it will be followed by two more volumes on 'Asia and Pacific', and 'Africa'. The overall aim is to target an interdisciplinary audience and offer cross-country learning as it enables to better understand the institutionalisation of evaluation in different national states and world regions as well as in different sectors.

Reinhard Stockmann is Professor of Sociology at Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany. He is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Evaluation (CEval), Managing Director of the German- speaking MA-Course Evaluation and of the English-speaking Blended Learning Master of Evaluation; Executive Editor of the German Zeitschrift für Evaluation (Journal of Evaluation); Founding member of the German Society for Evaluation (DeGEval). During his 50 years of evaluation experience he conducted several hundred evaluation studies and has led numerous Evaluation Capacity Building projects. He has published around 50 books and 300 articles.

Wolfgang Meyer is Professor at Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany. He is the Founder and Director of the Center for Evaluation (CEval); Managing Director of the English-speaking Blended Learning Master of Evaluation; Executive Editor of the German Zeitschrift für Evaluation (Journal of Evaluation), and Founding member of the German Society for Evaluation (DeGEval). During his 50 years of evaluation experience he conducted several hundred evaluation studies and has led numerous Evaluation Capacity Building projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has published around 50 books and 300 articles dealing with the subject evaluation, quality development, development policy, development cooperation, vocational training, environment, sociology etc. His textbooks have been translated into six languages.

Laszlo Szentmarjay is Research Associate at Centre for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, and Project Manager at CEval GmbH. He is responsible for the conception and implementation of evaluations and M&E systems in the field of development cooperation, environment and education.