EVALUATION

A methodical, organised, and ongoing assessment of an initiative's worth and quality that includes a final conclusion of whether or not the programme's goals and objectives have been met. Building on information monitoring, evaluation determines the extent to which goals have been met and results and longer-term effects have occurred (Markiewicz & Patrick 2016: 4). The difference between monitoring and evaluation is that monitoring is often done all the way through a project or programme. Evaluations are done at specific intervals, such as halfway through a project or programme, or at its conclusion.

Functions

Aimed to produce information and proposals that may be utilised to raise the project or program's effectiveness.

An evaluation may occasionally be used to guide decisions about project or programme extensions

To make it possible for businesses to report their resource usage to governments, funding sources, and taxpayers

Evaluations have the potential to yield insights that may be implemented in subsequent initiatives or campaigns.

Are frequently made to allow firms to report their resource usage to governments and financial bodies.

Policy decisions may be influenced by evaluation results.

Types

Formative Evaluation

Summative Evaluation

Diagnostic Evaluation

Comparative Evaluation

Data collection methods

Qualitative

Quantitative

Case studies

Semi-structured interviews

Community meetings

Narrative studies

Document reviews

Stakeholder analysis

Testing

Social and economic assessments

Questionnaires

Cost-benefit analysis

Experimental designs

Criteria

Responsible persons

Standards

Appropriateness

Effectiveness

Effeciency

Sustainability

Impact

Utility: to make evaluation procedures more beneficial

Feasibility: to improve the efficiency and efficacy

Accuracy: to encourage reliable and accurate evaluation outcomes

Propriety: promote proper, fair, legal, right, and just evaluative practice

Programme managers

External evaluators

Researchers

Internal evaluators

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Markiewicz, A. & Patrick, I. 2016. Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications.

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