Bridging the gap between wellbeing and evaluation: Lessons from IBEST, a French experience.

While evaluators and advocates of alternative indicators both reflect on values and the collective construction of judgements, they do not talk much to each other. The ambition of this paper is to bridge this gap between evaluators and proponents of alternative indicators, by highlighting how an approach dedicated to the construction of alternative indicators can support evaluation practice. To do so, we draw on a participatory project conducted in Grenoble (France), that focused on the construction of indicators of sustainable wellbeing (IBEST).