The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in the Americas

1. The Instituationalisation of Evaluation: Theoretical Background, Analytical Concept and Methods.- 2. Evaluation in Argentina.- 3. Evaluation in Bolivia.- 4. Evaluation in Brazil.- 5. Evaluation in Canada.- 6. Evaluation in Chile.- 7. Evaluation in Colombia.- 8. Evaluation in Costa Rica.- 9. Evaluation in Ecudor.- 10. Evaluation in Mexico.- 11. Evaluation in Peru.- 12. Evaluation in the United States of America.- 13. CLEAR LAC - Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results - Latin America and the Caribbean.- 14. Contributions of The Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group) to the Institutionalisation of Evaluation in Latin America and the Caribbean.- 15. The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group: Influences on Evaluation Structures and Practices Globally and in the Americas. 16. The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in the Americas: A Synthesis.- 17. The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in Europe and the Americas: A Comparison.

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.