Evaluation use and the CEFP -: Lessons from a case study

The Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project,was designed to build the evaluation capacity of the American Cancer Society and to produce evaluations that would be used in decision making on the local to national levels.:Is this kind of use ring and has use become a means of institutionalizing evaluation? Data from site visits to sis regional offices suggest some use of findings occurring, while other data clearly indicate that evaluation ethos and evaluation practice are both taking hold within the in decision organization.