From Studies to Streams

Ray C. Rist is a senior evaluation officer in the World Bank. He has served as university professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and George Washington University. His career has included fifteen years in the U.S. government in both the Executive and Legislative branches. He has authored, edited, or co-edited twenty-four books and written over 125 articles. Nicoletta Stame teaches social policy at the University "La Sapienza," Rome. She was a co-founder and first president of the Italian Evaluation Association. Her previous publications include L'esperienza della valutazione.

• 1: Channelled Streams of Evaluative Knowledge; 1: The “E” in Monitoring and Evaluation— Using Evaluative Knowledge to Support a Results-Based Management System; 2: How Evaluation Can Help Make Knowledge Management Real; 2: Information Systems at Work for Evaluation; 3: Management of Evaluative Knowledge in National Health: Some Comparative Observations; 4: Organizing Knowledge; 5: Managing Evaluations in the Netherlands and Types of Knowledge; 6: Implementing Results-Based Management; 3: Thematic Evaluations and Their Uses; 7: Complex Policies and Evaluative Streams of Knowledge; 8: Evaluating Knowledge about the Instruments of Government: The Canadian Federal Experience; 9: Why Evaluations Sometimes Can’t be Used— and Why They Shouldn’t; 4: Strategic Budgeting and Streams of Knowledge; 10: Evaluation Use and Information Communication Technology; 11: Evaluative Information in the Norwegian Ministries; 12: Evaluation Knowledge for Strategic Budgeting; 5: Multi-Study Evaluation and the Learning Organization; 13: Evaluation, Knowledge Management, and Learning: Caught between Order and Disorder; 14: Patterns of Evaluative Knowledge Creation and Utilization within the World Bank; Postscript; Conclusion