How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities

Takunda J. Chirau and Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2020, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Monitoring; Evaluation; Performance management; Municipality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101831

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