Organizational Capacity-Building Series - Session 6: Program Evaluation

Program evaluation is the process of collecting data to determine the effectiveness of a program and make decisions about its future. It can be used to demonstrate a program's effectiveness and request additional funding. Benefits include self-understanding, accountability, credibility, and accreditation. Evaluation research uses methods like surveys, pre-post testing, focus groups and case studies to provide empirical findings that strengthen programs. Accreditation agencies also conduct external evaluations using standards to ensure quality and integrity.

Presented by Laili Irani, Senior Policy Analyst for the Population Reference Bureau, as part of the Measuring Success Toolkit webinar in September 2012.

Evaluating conferences and events: new approaches and initiatives - summary of new ideas and examples

This document summarizes a chapter from the book "Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies" by Emil J. Posavac and Raymond G. Carey. The chapter discusses selecting criteria and setting standards for program evaluation. It explains that criteria should reflect a program's purposes and be influenced by the program staff. Criteria also need to be measurable reliably and validly. Goals should include implementation, intermediate, and outcome goals. Evaluation criteria and questions should assess whether a program matches stakeholder values and needs. Developing a program theory can help define how a program's components will achieve its goals. Assessing a program theory examines its logic, plausibility, and alignment with research. Practical limitations like budget and

This document outlines the topics and activities to be covered in Week 3 of a course on community health and health promotion program development. It will describe processes of environmental scanning, trend analysis, and the key steps of community health program development. Students will learn about needs assessments, theories in health promotion planning, goals and objectives, and the ecological approach. They will develop implementation strategies at different levels of intervention and learn the purposes of program evaluation. Readings, discussions, and activities are planned, including a scenario analyzing a sheltered workshop using SWOT analysis. Key terms and concepts are defined.

M &E FRAMEWORKS INDICATES THE SCOPE OF EVALUATION AND THE DETAILS INVLVED .THE LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT BY STAKEHOLDERS

This document provides guidance on designing program evaluations in 3-5 sentences. It discusses clarifying the program's goals and strategy, developing relevant evaluation questions, and selecting an appropriate evaluation design and approach. It also covers identifying appropriate data sources and collection procedures, developing plans to analyze data to allow for valid conclusions, and defining key parts of an evaluation plan such as objectives, information sources, data collection methods, and analysis plans.

Whole systems change across a neighbourhood How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.

This document discusses different approaches to program evaluation. It defines program evaluation as the systematic gathering of information to make decisions about improving and assessing the effectiveness of a curriculum. There are four main approaches discussed: product-oriented, which focuses on achieving goals and objectives; static-characteristic, which uses outside experts; process-oriented, which questions the worth of goals; and decision-facilitation, which gathers information to help administrators make judgments. The document also covers dimensions that shape evaluation perspectives, including the purpose (formative or summative), type of information (process or product), and type of data and analysis (quantitative or qualitative).