Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation -- CONTENTS -- EDITORS' NOTES -- References -- Research Team Members -- Other Contributors -- 1 Framing the Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation -- Evolving Conceptions of Evaluation Capacity Building -- Use and Organizational Evaluation Capacity -- Utilization and Evaluation Theory -- Professional Standards of Practice -- Evaluation and Organizational Learning -- Data Use Leads to Data Valuing -- Direct Versus Indirect ECB -- Framework for Organizational Evaluation Capacity -- Assumptions -- Conceptual Framework -- Implications for Research and Practice -- Note -- References -- 2 Multiple Case Study Methods and Findings -- Purpose and Rationale -- Study Methods -- Methodological Approach -- Sample-Case Organizations -- Data Collection -- Case 1: Dawson College -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Sources of Evaluation Knowledge -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Comments -- Case 2: Canadian Mental Health Association -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Evaluation Knowledge and Skill Development -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Remarks -- Case 3: International Development Research Centre -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Sources of Evaluation Knowledge -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Comments -- Case 4: Canadian Cancer Society -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Facilitating Evaluative Activities -- Facilitating Evaluative Learning -- Creating Evaluative Information -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers.

Concluding Comments -- Case 5: Canada Revenue Agency -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Sources of Evaluation Knowledge and Skills -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Comments -- Case 6: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Sources of Evaluation Knowledge and Skills -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Comments -- Case 7: United Way of Greater Toronto (UWGT) -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers of Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Sources of Evaluation Knowledge -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Comments -- Case 8: Ontario Trillium Foundation -- Introduction and Study Context -- Drivers for Evaluation -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Evaluation Enablers and Barriers -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- References -- 3 Cross-Case Analysis and Implications for Research, Theory, and Practice -- Cross-Case Summary of Findings -- Capacity to Do Evaluation -- Capacity to Use Evaluation -- Principal Forces and Influences -- Thematic Analysis and Discussion -- Organizational Characteristics and Dispositions -- Organizational Evaluation Strategies -- Engagement With Evaluation -- Implications for ECB Research, Theory, and Practice -- Research on Evaluation Capacity and Its Development -- Theoretically Situating Organizational Evaluation Capacity -- Moving Practice Forward -- Concluding Comment -- Note -- References -- 4 Postscript: That Was Then, This Is Now -- Reference -- INDEX -- Order Form.