Framing the capacity to do and use evaluation

New Directions for Evaluation

Volumn 2014, Issue 141, 2014, Pages 7-23

  Cousins, J Bradley ^a   Goh, Swee C ^b   Elliott, Catherine J ^b   Bourgeois, Isabelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE NATIONALE D'ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE   (Canada)

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EID: 84896986800     PISSN: 10976736     EISSN: 1534875X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ev.20076     Document Type: Article

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