PrintThis page offers links to resources (guides, tools, scholarly journals) and organizations involved in the field of public policy evaluation (evaluation societies, evaluation research centres and other public and private organizations). This page is under construction and complementary resources will be added in the near future.
GUIDES AND TOOLS
- ADEPME - Agence de Développement et d'Encadrement des Petites et Moyennes Entreprise : Boîte à outils pour consultants (French only)
- ARECCI - The Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative
- Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers. Rubin Frances (1995)
- Basic Guide to Program Evaluation
- Comment évaluer une action d'éducation pour la santé? Chantal Vandoorne (2007) (French only)
- Evalsed : The resource for the evaluation of socio-economic development
- Évaluation : ni pensée unique ni bonnes ou mauvaises méthodes! Chantal Vandoorne, Françoise Jabot et Laurence Fond-Harmant (2007) (French Only)
- IFAD - A Guide for Projects Monitoring and Evaluation (French/English)
- Guide pour les demandes de bourses (French only)
- Guiding Principles for Evaluators. American Evaluation Association (2004).
- The World Bank, Impact Evaluation Toolkit
- La documentation française, L'évaluation des politiques publiques (French only)
- L'évaluation des politiques publiques, Problématique générale. Bernard Perret (2003) (French only)
- Online Evaluation Resource Labrary (OERL)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Evaluation Policy Suite (Effective as of April 1, 2009)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Roles for Government in Evaluation Quality Assurance: Discussion Paper (archived)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Improving the Professionalism of Evaluation
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Professional Ethics and Standards for the Evaluation Community in the Government ofCanada
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Evaluation Function in the Government of Canada (archived)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Study of the Evaluation Function In the Federal Government
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Guide on the Program Evaluation Function - May 1981 (archived)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Principles for the Evaluation of Programs by Federal Departments and Agencies (archived)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - The Health of the Evaluation Function in the Government of Canada Report for Fiscal Year 2004-05
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Standard on Evaluation for the Government of Canada (Cancelled [2016/07/01])
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Policy on Evaluation (Cancelled [2016/07/01])
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Directive on the Evaluation Function (Cancelled [2016/07/01])
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Decision-Making in Government: The Role of Program Evaluation
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Review of the Quality of Evaluations Across Departments and Agencies (archived)
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Guide for the Review of Evaluation Reports
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Interim Evaluation of the Treasury Board Evaluation Policy
- TBCS (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) - Archived [2009-03-31] - Policy on Evaluation
- What is Program Evaluation: A Beginners Guide
- Who are the Question-Makers? A Participatory Evaluation Handbook. Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning (1997).
- Wikipedia: Program Evaluation
Europe - Tools for the Evaluation of Regional Politics
Other Resources in EvaluationEVALUATION SOCIETIES
- African Evaluation Association (AfrEA)
- Australasian Evaluation Society
- Canadian Evaluation Society (English/French)
- European Evaluation Society
- IOCE - International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation
- Société française d’évaluation [French Evaluation Society] (French only)
- Société québécoise d’évaluation de programmes [Quebec Society for Program Evaluation] (French only)
- UK Evaluation society (Best practice)
EVALUATION RESEARCH CENTRES
- African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development (CAFRAD) (French/English)
- Association universitaire de recherche sur l'action publique (UCL-AURAP) [University Research Association on Public Policy]-Belgium (French/English)
- Canadian Public Policy
- Centre d'expertise des grands organismes [Centre of Expertise for Large Organizations] – (French only)
- Centre de recherche et d’expertise en évaluation - ENAP (French only)
- European Institute of Public Administration (English)
- Institut des hautes études en administration publique [Institute for Advanced Studies in Public Administration] - Switzerland (French only)
- Public Management Institute - Belgium (English/Dutch)
JOURNALS
- American Journal of Evaluation
- Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
- Evaluation and Program Planning
- Evaluation Review
- Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation
- LeGes - Législation et évaluation
- New Directions for Evaluation
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
- Télescope - Revue d’analyse comparée en administration publique (French only)
- The Evaluation Exchange
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN EVALUATION
- ALNAP's Evaluative Reports Database
- Association finances gestion évaluation des collectivités territoriales (AFIGESE)
- The World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators 1996-2011
- CDC Evaluation Working Group
- CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
- CRDI (Centre de recherches sur le développement international)
- Évaluation des politiques publiques
- Expect Federal Programs to Perform Well, and Better Every Year
- F3E
- Fondements pour le renouvellement de la Politique sur l’évaluation (2009), Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor du Canada
- IBM Center for The Business of Government, Connecting research to practice
- Interdisciplinary Ph. D. in Evaluation, Western Michigan University
- Portail de l'évaluation des politiques publiques: Commissariat Général du Plan - Conseil National de l'Évaluation
- Le site Portal de L'évaluation dans l'espace francophone
- The Public Policy and Governance Review (PPGR)
- The Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada
- World Bank, Independent Evaluation Group
- World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators 1996-2015
