ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a distinctly more positive view of the aims and benefits of collaboration with the agencies of the state. Indeed, in some countries the pursuit of collaboration has constituted both a positive value of a democratic political system and a hallmark of a civil society. The chapter focuses on the implications of the developments chronicled and revisits the rationale for collaboration. In support of the thesis Bob Segsworth characterizes accountability relationships in collaboration and examines how the various accountabilities in collaborative relationships have been officially conceptualized in results-based terms in the Canadian context. The chapter suggests some limitations of traditional evaluation methodology in responding to such shifts of function. It concludes that the effects and impact of differing modes of collaboration, the consequences for collaboration and evaluation of moving into quality and results-based government and the inherent tensions between traditional methods of auditing and evaluating state activities in their application to the world of collaboratives.
