Evaluating the Complex

In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will be evaluated

1. Introduction 2. Implications of Complicated and Complex Characteristics for Key Tasks in Evaluation 3. Contribution Analysis: Addressing Cause and Effect 4. Micro, Meso, and Macro Dimensions of Change: A New Agenda for the Evaluation of Structural Policies 5. Coping with the Evaluability Barrier: Poverty Impact of European Support at Country Level 6. Monitoring and Evaluation of a Multi-Agency Response to Homelessness: An Australian Case Study 7. Evaluating a Complex Policy in a Complex Context: Th e Elusive Success of the Swiss Smoking Prevention Policy. Evaluating the Complex 8. Intervention Path Contribution Analysis (IPCA) for Complex Strategy Evaluation: Evaluating the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy 9. Responding to a Global Emergency and Evaluating That Response-Th e Case of HIV/AIDS 10. Evaluating Complex Strategic Development Interventions: Th e Challenge of Child Labor 11. Challenges in Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions: Randomized Experiments and Complexity 12. Some Insights from Complexity Science for the Evaluation of Complex Policies