Book Review: Policy evaluation in the era of COVID-19
| Published date | 01 March 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X241230302 |
| Author | Yvonne Zurynski |
| Date | 01 March 2024 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Book Review
Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2024, Vol. 24(1) 76–79
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DOI: 10.1177/1035719X241230302
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Policy evaluation in the era of
COVID-19
Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo and Ray C. Rist (Eds) Policy evaluation in the era of COVID-19.
Routledge, (2023). ISBN 9781032452968.
Reviewed by: Yvonne Zurynski,Professor of Health System Sustainability, Australian Institute of
Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Introduction
With the global COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact our lives, we live in
unprecedented times. This book explores how the pandemic impacted evaluation
practices, architectures, and values and how evaluation practice and knowledge
contributed (or not) to the formulation and adjustment of government policy responses
and socio-economic recovery planning. An impressive group of expert authors provide
a comprehensive synthesis of insights based on the experiences from four high income
countries (Australia, Canada, and the UK) as well as international perspectives from the
United Nations.
The use of case studies and real-world examples as well as practical insights to
improve evaluation practice will be valuable to evaluators and organisations that
undertake, commission, or interpret and use evaluation work. There are lessons learned
and calls for an ongoing transformation of evaluation practice, a more collaborative
approach where many different actors contribute insights from multiple view points and
where human-rights approaches are always considered.
Description
This book of 213 pages is organised into nine chapters which are ‘topped-and-tailed’by
a comprehensive Introduction and Afterword. The book was written in the second year
of the COVID-19 pandemic while the crisis was ongoing. This provides a fresh and
immediate view of the reality of conducting evaluations during a global crisis. The
Introduction is presented in two sections with the first providing an overview based on a
meta-analysis of evaluation literature published during the first year of the pandemic
and how this could inform future evaluation practice. The second section addresses
systems thinking and complexity when undertaking evaluation during turbulent times
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