Well-designed evaluations save time and money, delivering useful insights that enable evidence-based decisions. This hands-on training course provides practical guidance on how to refine the focus of an evaluation, ensuring that the scope and methods are realistic and robust.
This course covers the following topics:
– Laying the foundations for effective evaluation
– Getting to know the value of impact evaluation
– Distinguishing between output and outcomes
– Understanding the range of evaluation approaches and tools available to you
– How to develop your evaluation plan
– How to be an ethical evaluator
– Data consent and how it should be handled
– Understanding the range of evaluation approaches and tools available to you
– How to organize data for qualitative and quantitative analysis
By the end of this course, you will:
– Understand key concepts for evaluation, including ‘impact’.
– Be ready to articulate your ‘theory of change’.
– Be capable of translating your evaluation goals into clear, measurable outcomes that can be assessed.
– Be able to develop an evaluation plan based on available time and resources, as well as your evaluation goals.
– Make an informed decision about which type of evaluation approach and tool is most likely to be appropriate for evaluating your intended outcomes.
– Be able to apply basic ethical principles to your evaluation.
– Be able to effectively organize and store evaluation data.
– Make sure you are in line with GDPR rules.
