Realistic Evaluation: An Overview
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چکیده
Thank you very much for inviting me to speak at the Inaugural Conference of the Danish Evaluation Society. I hope that your Society thrives and that you spend some time working out ways in which evaluation can best serve the needs of your communities. There is a risk that Societies become self serving promoters of activity rather than forums for critical discussion about what can best meet community needs. In the following discussion what I’m going to do is to spell out what I think evaluation can usefully contribute to social policy development.
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