Evaluation South Asia is the first edition of a professional journal serving the interests of evaluators in South Asia. Its articles describe the issues facing evalutors now making headway in establishing and evalauaiton profession in this part of the world The first chapter, The Pilars of Public Evaluation, estalshes the framework for an effective country-wide evaluaiton profession and practice that will make evaluation an inherent part of the processes used to develop, plan, operate, and assess government programs.

An Evaluation Roadmap for a More Effective Government was issued by the Evaluation Policy Task Force of the American Evaluation Association. It provides guidance for governemnt officials of the Ulnited States to follow in order to incorporate evaluation requirements into authorizing legislation, regulatons, and adminstrative issuances. It describes an evalauiton discipline and practice that applies approprite evaluation methods and approches to government programs throughout their life cycle. It envisions government policy makers and managers adapting evaluation methods to help design programs, then to monitor their early implmentation, to measure their results as they mature, and to meaure their impact.