This issue focuses on connections between performance management and evaluation, a contentious topic at the moment. It does so by placing evaluation and monitoring under the overarching concept of performance management, and then by investigating five complementarities between performance monitoring and measurement on the one hand, and evaluation on the other. These complementarities are:

• Sequential
• Informational
• Organizational
• Methodical
• Hierarchical.

Several case studies discuss the uses and complementarities of evaluation...