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It is important to develop and build on human capital (knowledge and skills), organizational capital (technical infrastructure and processes) and social capital (supportive networks) for effectively managing, undertaking and using evaluations. Evaluation capacity includes developing […]
It is important to identify the people who are intended to actually use the evaluation, and to engage them in the evaluation in some way if possible. This increases the likelihood that the evaluation will […]
It is important that key stakeholders agree on the main purpose or purposes of evaluation, and be aware of any possible conflicts between purposes. The purposes of an evaluation will inform (and be informed by) the […]
Key Evaluation Questions (KEQs) are the high-level questions that an evaluation is designed to answer – not specific questions that are asked in an interview or a questionnaire. Having an agreed set of Key Evaluation […]
Evaluation is essentially about values, asking questions such as : What is good, better, best? Have things improved or got worse? How can they be improved? Therefore, it is important for evaluations to be systematic and […]
As part of an evaluation, it is often important to either develop or use existing indicators or measures of implementation and/or results. Using an existing indicator or measure can have the advantage of producing robust data which […]
This task focuses on ways to collect and/or retrieve data about activities, results, context and other factors. It is important to consider the type of information you want to gather from your participants and the […]
Good data management includes developing effective processes for consistently collecting and recording data, storing data securely, backing up data, cleaning data, and modifying data so it can be transferred between different types of software for […]
Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data can improve an evaluation by ensuring that the limitations of one type of data are balanced by the strengths of another. This will ensure that understanding is […]