Evaluation

Innovation Network’s Evaluation Plan Workbook offers an introduction to the concepts and processes of planning a program evaluation. We hope that after following this workbook, you will understand evaluation as a tool for empowerment. You will learn how evaluation can help your organization be more effective, and you will be able to develop plans to evaluate both the implementation and outcomes of your programs.

Effective program evaluation is a systematic way to improve and account for public health actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate. The framework guides public health professionals in their use of program evaluation. It is a practical, nonprescriptive tool, designed to summarize and organize essential elements of program evaluation.

- An effective, comprehensive program to prevent sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence takes a multitude of approaches, one of which is training professionals to engage in sexual violence prevention and/or intimate partner prevention. This Guide describes how to develop, implement, and evaluate a training process, taking into account your available level of resources. Additionally, this training process emphasizes turning awareness and knowledge into mastered skills and practices to prevent sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence. (Fisher D, Lang KS & Wheaton J.)

This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies. It is for state and local leaders and staff members of organizations, coalitions, government agencies, and/or partnerships working to prevent sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, suicide, and/or child maltreatment. (S Cox PJ, Keener D, Woodard T & Wandersman, A.)

The Strategic Prevention Framework uses a five-step planning process to guide states, jurisdictions, tribes, and communities in the selection, implementation, and evaluation of effective, culturally appropriate, and sustainable prevention activities. The SPF process promotes youth development, reduces risk-taking behaviors, builds assets and resilience, and prevents problem behaviors across the life span of the programs. The idea behind the SPF is to use findings from public health research along with evidence-based prevention programs to build capacity and sustainable prevention. This, in turn, promotes resilience and decreases risk factors in individuals, families, and communities.

This page lists free resources for program evaluation and social research methods. The focus is on "how-to" do program evaluation and social research: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web.

This document provides a practical introduction to storytelling approaches being successfully applied in grassroots program evaluation. These approaches can be used in almost any setting, with any number of participants, in any language. They are flexible and can be creatively tailored to the needs and styles of your particular organization or project. (The California Endowment Evaluation Toolbox)

The Program Development & Evaluation Unit is charged with providing leadership and capacity building in program evaluation through in-service education, resource material development, consultation, administrative support and managing high priority evaluations. Our main areas include: internal capacity development, community-based capacity development, research and development.

This handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool.

EvaluACTION is one of our newest, award-winning VetoViolence tools. It won a 2015 Communicator Award of Excellence for Outstanding Website. Designed for people interested in learning about program evaluation, EvaluACTION helps you see yourself in the evaluation process and breaks down roadblocks. It also walks you through creating your own evaluation plan and logic model. Tool Features: People of Evaluation to help you identify and engage stakeholders, Do’s & Don’ts to underscore what you should & shouldn’t do, Evaluation Plan & Logic Model Builder to help get your efforts off the ground.

Measuring the impact of grant-maker dollars on large-scale social change is difficult at best. Casey commissioned this guide to facilitate that effort. Welcome to a new field of evaluation: gauging investment impact within advocacy and public policy work. (Reisman, J, Gienapp, A and Stachowaik, S.)

Over 22,000 people worldwide use the Point K Learning Center to learn about evaluation, connect with peers, and understand the results of their own programs.