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