(Evaluating Advocacy and Policy Change)
Keywords:
Advocacy Evaluation, Policy Change, Evaluator Role, Technology for Advocacy Evaluation, Advocacy ImpactAbstract
The purpose of this article was to present a new concept of evaluation that has been mentioned in the professional evaluator communities or the evaluation used to make evaluations during the present and future periods. This evaluation is known as policy advocacy evaluation or advocacy and policy changes. The evaluation results will lead to changes in the policy of various organization units, especially government organizations. The authors present the contents of policy advocacy evaluation covering the history or development of the evaluation concept, definition, the nature of the evaluation, method of policy advocacy evaluation, the role of the evaluator, technology and advocacy evaluation, and trends of the evaluation.
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