Independent Evaluation of Social Housing Operations: Challenges and Lessons to Be Learned

Author: Luigi Cuna

In recent years, the Evaluation Department of the Council of Europe Development Bank has conducted a series of independent evaluations of CEB-financed operations in the social housing sector targeting special vulnerable groups. Building on evaluation evidence and experience, two strategic issues are presented: the high level of complexity of such operations and the various facets of their sustainability. This paper underlines the significant learning and accountability potential of evaluations of social housing operations. At the same time, it underscores the added value of a holistic approach to evaluation, in the face of a simplistic, but currently predominant, output-oriented focus during monitoring.

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Document Type
article
ISSN
2336-2839
Volume / Issue
4 / 2
Pages
99-106
Date of publication
20.12.2017

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Cuna, L. 2017. ‘Independent Evaluation of Social Housing Operations: Challenges and Lessons to Be Learned.’ Critical Housing Analysis 4 (2): 99-106. https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2017.4.2.390