Governments and evaluation units
Sub-dimension and indicator scores locate the legal, organisational and professional deficits that evaluation capacity development and evaluation policy should address.
About the index
The Index of Evaluation Institutionalization in the Arab Region is directed by Dr. Anis Ben Brik with an advisory group drawn from the regional evaluation community.
Background of the index
The Index of Evaluation Institutionalization in the Arab Region is a comparative measurement instrument for evaluation capacity in public administration. It treats evaluation as a component of administrative capacity: the rules, organisational arrangements and routines through which governments generate evidence on the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of public interventions, and through which that evidence enters budgeting, policy design and accountability.
The index originates in the comparative study of national evaluation systems published in The Institutionalization of Evaluation in the Middle East and North Africa (Ben Brik, 2025), which applies the three-system framework of the Evaluation GLOBE project to Arab states. The first edition codes 16 indicators across the political, social and profession systems of 11 states. It distinguishes formal evaluation mandates from their organisational embedding and use, and it provides a baseline against which evaluation policy, public sector reform and evaluation capacity development can be assessed in subsequent editions.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Anis Ben Brik
Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy. Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Research Affiliate, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana. President, MENA Evaluation Association.
Project team
- Principal Investigator
Dr. Anis Ben Brik
Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy. Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Research Affiliate, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana. President, MENA Evaluation Association.
- Project Coordinator
Hala Al Attar
Project coordination
Uses of the index
Parliaments and supreme audit institutions
The index identifies the absence of evaluative functions in the accountability architecture and provides a baseline for oversight reform.
VOPEs and practitioners
Comparable scores offer benchmarks for the professionalisation of evaluation and for regional peer learning.
Researchers
Sixteen coded indicators support comparative research on evaluation systems, institutional change and state capacity.