La valutazione delle politiche pubbliche nel settore privato : recenti evoluzioni e prospettive

This article aims to take stock of the evaluation tools currently in use in the private sector - including both the private for-profit sector and the third sector - to assess the contribution to the achievement of publicly rel-evant environmental and social goals. A very rapid evolution is underway in this sector, from accountability tools aimed at accounting for the or-ganization' commitments, to more complex systems focusing on out-comes. The latter aim not only to assess the impact, but also to provide structured evidence so that citizens can make informed choices, and in the meanwhile to fuel the evaluation demand. Private sector evaluation shares many of the aims of public policy evaluation: a greater connection between the two worlds is essential as well as it is desirable to identify ac-tors capable of translating their respective demands into common knowledge goals. [Publisher's text].