Category: frame

Framing an evaluation involves being clear about the boundaries of the evaluation. Why is the evaluation being done? What are the broad evaluation questions it is trying to answer? What are the values that will […]

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 […]