Approaches to Participation in Evaluation: Some Conditions for Implementation

Béatrice Plottu (1) , Eric Plottu (2)

1 GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management
2 ADEME - Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie

Approaches to participation in evaluation rely on the principle of active participation by major stakeholders, including the less organized groups, as fundamental to good evaluation practice. This process offers a number of advantages but implementation requires certain pre-requisites. The goal of our paper is to weigh up the advantages of participation and to examine the conditions necessary for approaches to participation in evaluation to achieve their objectives.

Keywords: Approaches to participation in evaluation; public policies; participation; democracy; empowerment

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

Béatrice Plottu, Eric Plottu. Approaches to Participation in Evaluation: Some Conditions for Implementation. Evaluation, 2009, 15 (3), pp.343-359. ⟨10.1177/1356389009106357⟩. ⟨hal-00729952⟩