Come rendere utile la valutazione? Pratiche e lezioni dalla valutazione dello sviluppo rurale in Regione Toscana : Il potere "metabletico" della valutazione

The evaluative experience of Tuscany Rural Development Program highlights the distinctive processes of the evaluation exercise, which have been finetuned to mobilize all its "metabletic" potential. That is to act and generate change within the commissioning Administration and various actors involved. These are critical success factors that worked and that represent suggestions that can be transferred and used in other contexts to fulfill the evaluation maximum enlightening and transformative potential. The steps of the evaluation process capable of providing evolutive input to the evaluated reality were clearly manifested within the Tuscany case. It was emblematic because it presented several empirical evidence that the evaluation has been a driver of improvement and growth for the stakeholders involved, as you will see in the contents of the article

The participatory approach, the continuous listening to the territory, the punctual dissemination of evaluation results and the constant relationship, and joint work, between evaluator and client are among the main distinctive factors of the Tuscany case. It is also in the potential to bring about change in the evaluated context that lies the ethical value of evaluation. [Publisher's text]