Insourcing, not capacity building, a better model for sustained program evaluation

American Journal of Evaluation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-94

  Miller, Thomas I ^a   Kobayashi, Michelle M ^a   Noble, Paula M ^a  

^a National Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Community based organizations; Evaluation models; Insourcing; Sustainable evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144471487     PISSN: 10982140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098214005283185     Document Type: Article

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