This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in Africa from various perspectives. It presents prior developments and current states of evaluation in 12 countries and 4 transnational organisations, focusing on three dimensions, namely the political, social and professional systems. These detailed country reports, which have been written by selected researchers of the respective countries, lead to a concluding African comparison and synthesis. This is the fourth and final volume of the compendium The Institutionalisation of Evaluation. The first volume on Europe was published in 2020, the second on the Americas in 2022, and the third on Asia-Pacific in 2023. The overall aim is to provide an interdisciplinary audience with cross-country learning to enable them to better understand the institutionalisation of evaluation in different nations, world regions and sectors.

The book also contains a final chapter in which the results from all published GLOBE volumes are systematically analysed for the first time in order to identify the driving and hindering forces in the institutionalization of evaluation and the challenges for the future of evaluation.

Reinhard Stockmann is Senior Professor of Sociology at Saarland University, Germany, Founder and Director of the Center for Evaluation (CEval), and Founding Editor of the Journal of Evaluation. He leads the international Master of Evaluation program (MABLE), and has conducted and published extensively on evaluation in multiple languages.

Wolfgang Meyer is Professor of Sociology at Saarland University, Germany and Adjunct Professor at Uganda Technology and Management University, Kampala, Uganda. He leads the evaluation working group at Saarland University, which is responsible for two master programs on Evaluation. He has published several books and papers on evaluation research, particularly in the field of sustainable development and vocational training.

Tanja Stockmann is Research Assistant at Saarland University, Germany and project manager at CEval GmbH. She is responsible for the conception and implementation of evaluations in the field of education and culture. She is also doing research in the field of evaluation.

This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in Africa from various perspectives. It presents prior developments and current states of evaluation in 12 countries and 4 transnational organisations, focusing on three dimensions, namely the political, social and professional systems. These detailed country reports, which have been written by selected researchers of the respective countries, lead to a concluding comparison and synthesis. This is the fourth and final volume of the compendium The Institutionalisation of Evaluation. The first volume on Europe was published in 2020, the second on the Americas in 2022, and the third on Asia-Pacific in 2023. The overall aim is to provide an interdisciplinary audience with cross-country learning to enable them to better understand the institutionalisation of evaluation in different nations, world regions and sectors.

The book also contains a final chapter in which the results from all published GLOBE volumes are systematically analysed for the first time in order to identify the driving and hindering forces in the institutionalization of evaluation and the challenges for the future of evaluation.