The purpose of this workshop is stimulate participants to consider how
to involve their communities and stakeholders in the evaluation of their
partnership's work. The emphasis is on using outcome and process evaluation
as activities parallel to planning and on reporting and using evaluation
findings. The workshop also emphasizes that partnerships should involve
their evaluation staff in generating the right questions and in reporting
the answers to the community and to stakeholders.
Learning Objectives
Team members will be able to:
Recognize how evaluation findings can be used to deepen stakeholders' and
communities' understanding and ownership of, and involvement in, the partnership's
work.
Use a participatory group process to generate questions about the effectiveness
and efficiency of the partnership AODA prevention work and rank these questions
in order of priority.
Explain the importance of cultural considerations as they relate to community
participation in the partnership's evaluation of its work.
Linkages with Previous and Following Sections
Because planning and evaluation are seen as concurrent processes, this
unit is linked to the unit on participatory planning. It is also related
to the units on community mobilization, cultural consciousness, and stakeholder
analysis, because of its emphasis on ways to involve members of the community
in evaluation of partnership activities. Since process evaluation is related
to assessment of the internal environment of the partnership, this unit
is also linked to the workshops on that subject.
Materials in Participant Manuals
Transparencies
None
Handouts
HO-1: Five General Steps for Participatory Evaluation
HO-2: Ten Building Blocks of the Participatory Evaluation Process
