Professionalization has become a major focus of discussion in the evaluation community,
and the process of professionalizing the field of evaluation has provoked strong reactions …

Scholarship from the sociology of professions has illustrated the important role that
autonomy must play in professional relationships, especially in technically-specific and …

Evaluation is multiform: a field of applied research, it is one of the multiple management
functions of a public or non-profit administration, but it is also a tool for advocacy and social …

Background: The adoption and use of effective, legally defensible, and ethically sound
practices relies on the successful dissemination of evidence-based practices and …

The professionalization of evaluation means different things to different people, and as a
result, the field lacks a clear understanding of how to empirically assess evaluator …

Organizations and countries have, in the last one decade or so, been undertaking different
efforts and strategies to professionalize monitoring and evaluation as a strategy to improve …