Türkiye'de sivil toplum kuruluşlarının ve kamu kurumlarının değerlendirme konusunda algıları ve hazır olma durumları

According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, '' the only thing that is constant is change.'' Continuously changing conditions and society makes the organizations struggle to find ways to adapt changes, survive in the marketplace and go on their activities. One of the ways to addressing change and development in the organizations has been to evaluate. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) programs show a supportive characteristic to accurate use of evaluation results, detection, and removal of disruptions in the organization and effective decision making. In designing evaluation capacity building (ECB) programs, it is significant to know the baseline situation in a country. A necessary step is to expose the status of current perception and practices of evaluation to understand the organization's readiness level for evaluation. The aim of this study is to reveal the evaluation readiness of governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations and the perception and differences about the evaluation concept of governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in Turkey. In the literature on organizational culture on evaluative inquiry there is a structured questionnaire that focused on some dimensions these are culture, leadership, resources and existing evaluation practices, if any. The survey sample includes 71 representatives of governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey. Although there is a significant difference between the answers of NGOs and governmental organizations, findings of the study revealed that, for both of the organizations the awareness of evaluation is low and evaluation is a perceived tool for organizational learning, help for development of organization performance, culture, leadership and structure of the organizations. vii However, there is a mismatch between these and organizations' evaluation activities in practice. The results reveal, NGOs seem more optimistic and ready to absorb the dimensions of evaluation concept than governmental organizations, but unfortunately evaluation is not yet a major tool for efficient use of resources and organizational learning in Turkish organizations. Keywords: Evaluation Readiness, Evaluation Capacity, Organizational Learning, Turkish case