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FOCEVAL – Promoting Evaluation Capacities in Costa Rica:: Smart(er) Implementation with Capacity WORKS?

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FOCEVAL – Promoting Evaluation Capacities in Costa Rica:: Smart(er) Implementation with Capacity WORKS?
Abstract
The National Monitoring and Evaluation System of Costa Rica and its corresponding laws were established during the 1990s. Since then, the country has endeavored to implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities as part of its public policy framework. Nevertheless, hardly any systematic evaluations had been conducted, and monitoring activities had been reduced mainly to the institutional self-reporting of implementation compliance. Persisting regional disparities and growing levels of inequality among the population raised the level of pressure on the government to present reliable information on the effectiveness of public interventions. Hence, results-oriented evaluations were promoted by some Costa Rican departments as
Book Title
Transformation, Politics and Implementation
Series
Smart Implementation in Governance Programs
Edition
1
Publisher
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Date
2017
Pages
175-194
ISBN
978-3-8487-3738-3
Short Title
FOCEVAL – Promoting Evaluation Capacities in Costa Rica
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11/12/2020, 11:04
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Citation
Storm, S. (2017). FOCEVAL – Promoting Evaluation Capacities in Costa Rica:: Smart(er) Implementation with Capacity WORKS? In R. Kirsch, E. Siehl, & A. Stockmayer (Eds.), Transformation, Politics and Implementation (1st ed., pp. 175–194). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv941tdt.12