A growing body of research is investigating the mechanisms to develop evaluation capacity in the Global South, but relatively little attention has been given to an equally important question: Under what conditions does the need to conduct and use evaluations for national decision making become a high priority on the governmental agenda? This article utilizes Kingdon's (2003) Multiple Streams Model to understand when and how evaluation is pushed higher on the public policy agenda in the Global South by using Turkey as a country case. This article argues that evaluation capacity building in the developing world may not be successful unless evaluation is indigenously elevated as a prominent item on the government's agenda. Turkey's case demonstrates evaluation's fleeting agenda status because evaluation as a policy solution has not yet become joined to a real problem despite the opening of a brief window of opportunity.

A growing body of research is investigating the mechanisms to develop evaluation capacity in the Global South, but relatively little attention has been given to an equally important question: Under what conditions does the need to conduct and use evaluations for national decision making become a high priority on the governmental agenda? Th is article utilizes Kingdon's (2003) Multiple Streams Model to understand when and how evaluation is pushed higher on the public policy agenda in the Global South by using Turkey as a country case. Th is article argues that evaluation capacity building in the developing world may not be successful unless evaluation is indigenously elevated as a prominent item on the government's agenda. Turkey's case demonstrates evaluation's fl eeting agenda status because evaluation as a policy solution has not yet become joined to a real problem despite the opening of a brief window of opportunity.Résumé : Un nombre croissant de recherches se consacrent aux mécanismes visant à renforcer la capacité évaluative des pays du Sud. Cependant, on accorde encore peu d' attention à une question tout aussi importante : Qu' est-ce qui fait qu'il devient important, pour un gouvernement, de mener des évaluations et d'en tenir compte dans la gouverne nationale ? Le modèle d'analyse des courants multiples (multiple streams) de J. W. Kingdon (2003) nous permet d'analyser, en prenant le cas de la Turquie, quand et comment l'évaluation remonte dans l'échelle des priorités des gouvernements des pays du Sud. Cet article suggère que le renforcement des capacités en évaluation dans les pays en développement aura peu d'impact à moins que l'évaluation ne soit considérée absolument prioritaire par les autorités nationales. Le cas de la Turquie montre que la position instable de l'évaluation à l'agenda politique est due au fait qu'elle n'apparait pas encore comme la solution politique à un problème réel, bien qu'une fenêtre d'opportunité politique ait été brièvement entrouverte.