The United Nations Environment Programme's Regional Seas Programme (RSP) is one of many international regimes for the protection and management of the marine and coastal environment. However, the literature suggests that this programme has, above others, attracted numerous accolades. Notably, the RSP has been referred to as "the jewel in UNEP's crown". Absent from this literature is evaluation based evidence to corroborate such declarations.
The complexity of the evaluation science literature necessitates the creation of a three-part Model of Evaluation Science to capture recurring themes and concerns. The first part presents a typology of evaluation forms. The second part details the generic steps involved in the policy and programme evaluation process. The third part decants a set of key barriers and challenges to conducting evaluation.
The Model is tested through a diagnostic field study in the case study of the Caribbean RSP. Evidence obtained from Content Analysis of the literature and Key Informant Interviews with strategically-placed personnel at the Caribbean Regional Co-ordinating Unit, indicates that capacity does not exist to evaluate the RSP's impacts on the state of the environment. As such, the Model is used to examine the state of programme evaluation capacity. Data obtained from the Interviews is presented as a set of "actual" capacity conditions, contrasted with the ideal or "expected" conditions provided by the tenets of the Model. Finally, the thesis concludes by passing judgment on the "jewel in the crown" declaration, and presents a set of recommendations to strengthen evaluation capacity in the Wider Caribbean Region.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/26875 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Christie, Shannon M |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 260 p. |
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