Index of Evaluation Institutionalization in the Arab Region · 2025
The Index of Evaluation Institutionalization in the Arab Region measures the institutionalisation of public policy evaluation across the political, social and professional systems of 11 Arab League states. No state has adopted a national evaluation law; the most institutionalised system reaches 25.6% of the theoretical maximum.
Index of Evaluation Institutionalization in the Arab Region
No state in the index has enacted a national evaluation law or decree, and neither parliaments nor supreme audit institutions exercise a formal evaluative function. Five of the 16 indicators score zero in all 11 states, the signature of institutional decoupling between evaluative discourse and binding rules.
The consolidating group (Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Oman) is distinguished by professionalisation rather than by political anchoring. Profession-system scores range from 0 to 56.2%, a wider dispersion than in either of the other systems.
Nine of the 11 states score zero on every indicator of societal system. Evaluation remains a supply-driven, executive-centred instrument with little civic or parliamentary demand for evaluative evidence.
The political system scores above the social system in 9 states. Evaluation is organisationally embedded in most executives, and every state records some sectoral spread, yet the use of findings in accountability forums is not institutionalised.
Following the Evaluation GLOBE framework, institutionalisation is observed where evaluation acquires rules, organisations and routines in the political system, legitimacy and demand in society, and a body of knowledge and norms in a profession.
Evaluation mandates, organisational units, the audit and parliamentary architecture of accountability, and the sectoral scope of evaluative practice.
Social system4.5%Regional meanUptake of evaluation by civil society, public knowledge, media discourse, transparency of evaluation reports and civic demand.
Profession system24.4%Regional meanAcademic training, professional communication, voluntary organisations for professional evaluation (VOPEs) and codified standards.
Annual report
A detailed analysis of every figure and table: institutional anchoring, evaluation use, societal system and professionalisation across 11 Arab League states, with implications for evaluation policy and public sector reform.
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