This article shares lessons from the field with program evaluations in the English-Speaking Commonwealth Caribbean (ESCC) region. The research highlighted that the challenges faced by evaluators working in the ESCC are quite similar to those experienced by evaluators elsewhere. However, the findings note the impact of the region’s colonial past and the developing–developed nexus on the ESCC people’s sense of pride and their desire to demonstrate the level of their expertise and its equivalence to the expertise associated with people in North America and Europe. These factors seem to contribute to an important undertone for evaluations in the region and for the challenges that evaluators face, including the limited culture of evaluation as well as the availability and quality of data.

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英语英联邦加勒比地区的评估：实地经验教训

本文与讲英语的英联邦加勒比 (ESCC) 地区的计划评估分享了该领域的经验教训。研究强调，在 ESCC 工作的评估员面临的挑战与其他地方的评估员所经历的挑战非常相似。然而，调查结果指出，该地区的殖民历史和发展中-发达的关系对 ESCC 人民的自豪感和他们渴望展示他们的专业知识水平及其与北美和欧洲人民相关专业知识的等效性的影响。这些因素似乎为该地区的评价和评价者面临的挑战（包括评价文化有限以及数据的可用性和质量）做出了重要贡献。