12Monitoring Evaluation
The upsurge in importance of evaluation consistent with the Monitoring Form can be associated with two major trends in public policy. These are:
- increased accountability in government and non-profit sectors; and
- the emergence of performance-based management as the means for fulfilling these accountability requirements.
Monitoring evaluation can be regarded as a component of the current total quality management and quality assurance thrusts, made manifest in the United States through the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), enacted in 1993. Similar trends can be seen worldwide—for example, performance-based management which required regular evaluation was introduced by the federal government in Australia ...
