The Strategic Evaluation: An Approach that Promotes Democratic Management of Territorial Projects
This research aims to question the evaluative approaches in their ability to promote democratic management of territorial projects. Two main conditions of such management can be identified. It pursues democratizing purposes and ensures at the same time, democratic processes of decision-making and governance (1). Faced with the need to develop methods to support the implementation of territorial projects, the strategic evaluation appears as a relevant approach. Its four key characteristics: a temporality “along the way”, a pluralist and participatory governance, an action research posture and an original mixed methodological protocol, promote indeed the democratic roots of such projects (2).