Introduction: Streams of Evaluative Knowledge - Nicoletta Stame Part 1 - Channelled Streams of Evaluative Knowledge 1. The "E" in Monitoring and Evaluation--Using Evaluative Knowledge to Support a Results-Based Management System - Ray C. Rist 2. How Evaluation Can Help Make Knowledge Management Real - Burt Perrin Part 2 - Information Systems at Work for Evaluation 3. Management of Evaluative Knowledge in National Health: Some Comparative Observations - Markus Spinatsch 4. Organizing Knowledge: Evidence and the Construction of Evaluative Information Systems - Peter Dahler-Larsen 5. Managing Evaluations in the Netherlands and Types of Knowledge - Frans L. Leeuw 6. Implementing Results-Based Management - Per Oyvind Bastoe Part 3 - Thematic Evaluations and Their Uses 7. Complex Policies and Evaluative Streams of Knowledge - Nicoletta Stame 8. Evaluating Knowledge about the Instruments of Government: The Canadian Federal Experience - Pearl Eliadis and Donald Lemaire 9. Why Evaluations Sometimes Can't be Used--and Why They Shouldn't - Jan-Eric Furubo Part 4 - Strategic Budgeting and Streams of Knowledge 10. Evaluation Use and Information Communication Technology: What is the Real Issue? - Yoon-Shik Lee 11. Evaluative Information in the Norwegian Ministries - Marit Stadler Waerness and Ragnhild Overlid 12. Evaluation Knowledge for Strategic Budgeting - Xavier Ballart and Eduardo Zapico Part 5 - Multi-Study Evaluation and the Learning Organization 13. Evaluation, Knowledge Management, and Learning: Caught between Order and Disorder - Kim Forss and Claus C. Rebien 14. Patterns of Evaluative Knowledge Creation and Utilization wthin the World Bank - Mita Marra Postcript Theory of Knowledge and Use of Evaluation: Popper's Relevance for the Concept of Streams of Evaluation Knowledge - Olaf Rieper Conclusion: A Brief Critique - Ray C. Rist List of Contributors Index