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How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities

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  • Chirau, Takunda J.
  • Blaser-Mapitsa, Caitlin

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South African municipalities are taking hesitant steps towards institutionalising evaluation practice. This paper explores how evaluation is being institutionalised at a municipal level, looking at both the legislative and regulatory requirements in terms of planning, budgeting, and reporting, as well as opportunities for evaluative practice. A well-established performance management system, coupled with certain constraints to innovation and building an evaluative culture are contributing to the creation of an evaluation function that serves a monitoring purpose. A combination of desktop research and participatory action research was used to understand the municipal practice of evaluation. The results have implications for how decentralised public sector evaluation systems are understood.

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  • Chirau, Takunda J. & Blaser-Mapitsa, Caitlin, 2020. "How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:epplan:v:82:y:2020:i:c:s014971892030135x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101831
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    1. Ronette Engela & Tania Ajam, 2010. "Implementing a Government-wide Monitoring and Evaluation System in South Africa," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 27574, December.
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