Advocacy outcomes are not self-evident. Identifying advocacy outcomes is extremely difficult because they are often intangible, arising from (personal) interactions, and they are not always traceable. This challenges conventional evaluation methods, which is recognized in the advocacy evaluation literature. However, current evaluation methods claim to do justice to these complexities while in reality, these methods assume outcomes are identified logically following from actions. Based on empirical findings from a multisited ethnographic study of an advocacy evaluation, this article questions these underlying assumptions and empirically demonstrates how advocacy outcomes are socially and politically constructed, leaving room for interpretation.

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倡导结果不言自明：对结果识别的追求

宣传的结果不是不言而喻的。确定宣传成果极其困难，因为它们通常是无形的，源自（个人）互动，而且并不总是可追溯的。这对宣传评估文献中公认的传统评估方法提出了挑战。然而，当前的评估方法声称对这些复杂性做出了公正的处理，而实际上，这些方法假设结果是根据行动逻辑确定的。基于对倡导评估的多地点人种学研究的实证结果，本文质疑这些基本假设，并从经验上证明了倡导结果是如何在社会和政治上构建的，为解释留有余地。