THIRD Event

In the spirit of our conference topic: Evaluation as Advocacy: We are facilitating the ʻIke Jam

 Title: The Politics of Policy and Links to Evaluation 

 Time and Date: July 29, 12:00-1:30

In October 1986, Eleanor Chelimsky, retired U.S. Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation, delivered a plenary address to the American Evaluation Association in Kansas City, MO. She spoke of her own personal experience as head of the Program Evaluation and Methodology Division at the General Accounting Office, a federal agency that serves as Congress’s independent, nonpartisan watchdog, auditing and evaluating government operations to improve efficiency and accountability.

To prepare for the ʻIke Jam: 

• (1) Read the article Chelimsky, E. (1987). What Have We Learned About the Politics of Program Evaluation? - https://doi.org/10.2307/1163608, please access through your organization.
• (2) Voluntarily self-explore additional “tendrils” about the author, the topic, the federal government evaluation “industry”; policy and politics
• (3) Come prepared to share your ‘ike and/or mana’o with the following discussion prompts:

• (A) - What are your professional and/or personal reflections about the plenary address contents that were given four decades ago, noting Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989).
• (B) - The 5-Part Continuum traverses policy question(s) to evaluation question(s) to evaluation proper, to translation of evaluation findings into policy answers, then to new policy questions. Please share your “hmms and ahas” as it relates to this section.
• (C) - In the section titled “What Have We Learned?”, please share your ‘ike and/or mana’o