C.
Evaluation report outline
The following
is an outline of an evaluation report. Projects are very
diverse. Project reports needs to be appropriate for each Project.
So the following should be taken as a starting point for consideration,
not a fixed evaluation report framework.
NOTE: A key
to focusing the evaluation process and report will be having specific
evaluation questions. These questions can often usefully
be linked to the original purpose of the project, ie. Why does
this project exist? Within this context
what do we really want to know about the project?
Contents
Executive
summary
A 1 to 2 page overview of what is being evaluated and the findings
Introduction
Who asked for this evaluation and why?
What are the main evaluation questions?
Who are the main audiences?
What is the overall design of the evaluation and why?
Description
of the project
Background
and context
Community and services network
Why the program came into existence?
Who is the project for?
Project
description
Describe the project in enough detail so that any one can understand what it
is and what it does
What resources are required (staff, volunteers, funding etc)?
Service
model and foundational ideas
Who are the clients? What are the intended outcomes?
What are the core values the underpin the project?
What is the service process model?
What are the intended outcomes at each phase of the process? What is the program
logic?
What are the ideas the project is founded on?
What is the supporting evidence for these ideas?
What are the pointers to progress?
The
project - what happened?
How did the
project evolve?
What was the extent of the Project? Over time? For example:
How many clients
What type of clients
How often were they seen?
How much service?
How much staff time per client?
What cost per client? Cost per hour of service?
What were the benefits of the Project? Over time?
What difference did the project make to clients?
Service networks? etc
Client stories? Staff stories?
How does this project compare with other projects trying to achieve the same
kinds of outcomes?
What
was learnt?
About the
process of the Project?
How good is the design and implementation
of the Project?
About the impacts of the Project?
What were the intended and unintended impacts?
About promising practice?
What is the potential here for others?
About the evaluation process
What was valuable/useful not valuable/useful
about the evaluation process?
Conclusions
Key findings about what happened
Recommendations for improvement? For future projects?
Attachments
1. Project documentation
Documentation describing the project
2. The Evaluation process
Detailed description of the evaluation process
3. Supporting evidence
Eg survey results; qualitative interview data, etc.
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