SELFEVALUATION TOOLKIT

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SELF-EVALUATION TOOLKIT

• Pat Irving
• for GB Equal Support Unit

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QUESTIONS POSED

• Why evaluate?
• What to evaluate?
• Who should evaluate?
• How to evaluate?

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WHY EVALUATE?

• Project management tool
• Accountability
• Marketing/promotional tool
• Programme requirement

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WHAT TO EVALUATE?

• Inputs
• Process
• Outputs
• Outcomes - impacts/effects
• Context

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WHAT TO EVALUATE? (2)

• Partnership activity
• Domestic
• Transnational
• Equals Leading Principles
• Innovation and added value
• Equal Opportunities
• Involving disadvantaged and excluded groups
• Empowerment
• Transnationality
• Mainstreaming and policy impact

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WHO SHOULD EVALUATE?

• Development Partnerships
• internal / self evaluation
• external - use of external evaluator
• Decide on skills needed consult with
  stakeholders
• Link internal and external evaluations

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GETTING STARTED

• National/transnational aims and objectives
• Source documents
• DPA
• National/transnational workplans
• Consult with partners and stakeholders (incl.
  mainstreaming target audience)
• Commissions Guide on transnational
  co-operation has suggestions for evaluation

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EVALUATION PROCESS
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DESIGN (1)

• Baseline
• Indicators
• Evaluation Approach

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DESIGN (2)
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BASELINE / INDICATORS

• Baseline
• Pertinent
• Measurable
• Indicators
• Process
• Output
• Qualitative
• Quantitative

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INFORMATION COLLECTION - DATASOURCES

• Development Partnership Agreement (DPA)
• Administrative data
• Surveys / questionnaires
• Interviews
• Observational methods

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ANALYSIS (1)

• Sift and sort
• Appropriateness
• Information overload
• Open minded

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ANALYSIS (2)

• So what?
• What are our outputs?
• Have we made a difference?
• What difference did we make?
• How did we make a difference?
• Why did we make a difference?
• For whom (and how many?)

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REPORTING

• Structure
• Audience
• Timing - interim / formative final
• Explain method
• Provide context
• Present evidence
• conclusions
• judgements
• recommendations