Below are some questions designed to prompt reflection on your situation, with related supports listed below.
10. We don't know how to evaluate our program or initiative. | Community Tool Box
10. We don't know how to evaluate our program or initiative.
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1. Have we developed a logic model for change, including the intended intermediate and long-term outcomes of our program or initiative?
- Toolkit: Developing a Framework or Model of Change
- Some Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
- Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change
2. Do we know the stakeholders who should be involved in planning and implementing the evaluation?
- Toolkit: Evaluating the Initiative
- Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
- Involving People Most Affected by the Problem
- Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
- Developing an Evaluation Plan
- Participatory Evaluation
- Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
3. Do we know how to use the evaluation to address the needs of the stakeholders?
- Understanding Community Leadership, Evaluators, and Funders: What Are Their Interests?
- Choosing Evaluators
- Using Evaluation to Understand and Improve the Initiative
- Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative
4. Have we gotten enough members of the community involved in planning and implementing the evaluation?
- Toolkit: Evaluating the Initiative
- Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
- Involving People Most Affected by the Problem
- Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
- Developing an Evaluation Plan
- Participatory Evaluation
- Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
5. Do we know what type of evaluation we should do?
- Introduction to Evaluation
- Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Understanding Community Leadership, Evaluators, and Funders: What Are Their Interests?
6. Do we know why we should evaluate our efforts in the first place?
- Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative
- Communicating Information to Funders for Support and Accountability
7. Do we have the time or money for evaluation?
8. Have we clearly defined evaluation indicators and how to clearly measure them?
9. Do we plan to gather and use evaluation data frequently enough to see progress and make adjustments?
- Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
- Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative