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Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard. 2023. The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Author: Mirko Heinzel

Published in: The Review of International Organizations | Issue 4/2023

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Every year, international organizations (IOs) in the United Nations (UN) system publish around 750 reports highlighting achievements, criticizing shortcomings, and giving recommendations to facilitate organizational learning. Such evaluations have become a central component of accountability in global governance, and they come with considerable costs. The UN system as a whole spends an estimated 430 million USD per year on evaluation—as much as the budget of organizations like the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization or the International Labour Organization. …

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Title: Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard. 2023. The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Author: Mirko Heinzel
Publication date: 24-07-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: The Review of International Organizations / Issue 4/2023
Print ISSN: 1559-7431
Electronic ISSN: 1559-744X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09500-9

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