{"product_id":"advocacy-and-policy-change-evaluation-theory-and-practice-paperback-softback-9780804792561","title":"Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation; Theory and Practice (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804792561","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAdvocacy and Policy Change Evaluation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTheory and Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnnette Gardner (Author), Claire Brindis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804792561\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 April 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 2 figures, 8 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This first foundational book on advocacy and policy change evaluation is a must-have resource. The authors have accumulated in one place the wealth of ideas, tools, and approaches that have been developed and tested in the field to date. Have evaluation design and implementation questions? You'll find answers here.\"—Julia Coffman, Director, Center for Evaluation Innovation \"This book exemplifies a new way of characterizing an expanding evaluation field via a wonderfully illuminating integration of theory and practice. It will be an indispensable resource for evaluators examining advocacy: its public-interest goals, its expanded environment, its action strategies and their tensions, along with its answered and unanswered questions.\"—Eleanor Chelimsky, U.S. Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation (Retired) \"Advocacy and policy change evaluation has developed methods, conceptual frameworks, tools, and innovative approaches to the challenges of complex systems change. In this book, the field finds its first comprehensive, accessible synthesis—including case exemplars. \u003ci\u003eAdvocacy and Policy Change Evaluation\u003c\/i\u003e definitively announces to the world that this is a specialization contributing credible and useful evaluations, documenting its accomplishments for all to see.\"—Michael Quinn Patton, author of \u003ci\u003eUtilization-Focused Evaluation, 4th Edition\u003c\/i\u003e \"The time is ripe for \u003ci\u003eAdvocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e. As more funders embrace their role in promoting policy change, this area of the evaluation field is becoming increasingly important. This book does an excellent job of bringing together the 'state of the art.'\"—Teresa Behrens, Director, Institute for Foundation and Donor Learning, Grand Valley State University and Editor-in-Chief, \u003ci\u003eThe Foundation Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"In the context of an accountability culture and as early developers and practitioners of APC evaluation, Gardner and Brindis established firm grounding and legitimacy for APC evaluation with this book. It continues to be a touchstone as practitioners in this dynamic field consider what APC evaluation was, is now, and should become.\"—Fontane Lo, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Evaluation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. By integrating insights from different disciplines, Part I provides a conceptual foundation for navigating advocacy tactics within today's turbulent policy landscape. Part II offers recommendations for developing appropriate evaluation designs and working with unique advocacy and policy change–oriented instruments. Part III turns toward opportunities and challenges in this growing field. In addition to describing actual designs and measures, the chapters includes suggestions for addressing the specific challenges of working in a policy setting, such as a long time horizon for achieving meaningful change. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo illuminate and advance this area of evaluation practice, the authors draw on over 30 years of evaluation experience; collective wisdom based on a new, large-scale survey of evaluators in the field; and in-depth case studies on diverse issues—from the environment, to public health, to human rights. Ideal for evaluators, change makers, and funders, this book is the definitive guide to advocacy and policy change evaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Policy and Policymaking: Making a Difference\u003cbr\u003e  2. Advocacy: Influencing Decision-Making\u003cbr\u003e  3. Designing Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluations\u003cbr\u003e  4. Outcomes and Methods in Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation\u003cbr\u003e  5. Unique Instruments for Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation\u003cbr\u003e  6. Evaluator Roles and Relationships with Stakeholders\u003cbr\u003e  7. Advancing Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford Business Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681226387736,"sku":"9780804792561","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/advocacy-and-policy-change-evaluation-theory-and-practice-paperback-softback-9780804792561","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}