Monitoring and Evaluating the Provision of (Donor-Funded) Regional Public Goods

This article deals with the monitoring and evaluation of the provision of regional public goods in the context of donor intervention. A number of issues will be identified that have to be addressed when designing and implementing such monitoring and evaluation schemes. This will be done in the framework of the socalled fourthgeneration project evaluation, of social constructivist inspiration. A er presenting the basic characteristics of fourthgeneration evaluation, the article explores how this evaluation framework can be adapted to the needs of the evaluator of the provision of regional public goods.