A implementação no centro da Avaliação de Políticas Públicas

Abstract

With the expansion of the scope and scale of Public Policies since the Federal Constitution of 1988, the field of evaluation has been consolidating in different institutional contexts in the country. Regardless of the knowledge advances in the area, there is some disenchantment about the role and use of evaluation. This text seeks to provide subsidies to mitigate this frustration of managers and evaluators with the evaluation of programs and / or their appropriation in the decision-making process, especially in the challenging context of public policies making in Brazil. The text begins with a discussion about the complexity and stage of maturity of Public Policies in Brazil and, after, the need for a systemic evaluation perspective. It is then argued that Implementation should be at the center of Evaluation concerns. It ends by advocating for the use of comprehensive and republican criteria in assessing the merits of policies and programs in the country.