important to build in opportunities to reflect on results to make programmatic improvements. This may include formal meetings, post-activity debriefs and evaluation reports, to name a few.
Additional uses include the following:
● To demonstrate to legislators or other stakeholders that resources are being well spent and that the program is effective. ● To aid in forming budgets and to justify the allocation of resources.
● To compare outcomes with those of previous years. ● To compare actual outcomes with intended outcomes. ● To suggest realistic intended outcomes. ● To support annual and long-range planning. ● To focus attention on issues important to your program. ● To promote your program. ● To identify partners for collaborations. ● To enhance the image of your program. ● To retain or increase funding. ● To provide direction for program staff. ● To identify training and technical assistance needs. 2. Feedback
Feedback occurs among everyone involved in the evaluation. Feedback, necessary at all stages of the evaluation process, creates an atmosphere of trust among stakeholders. Early in an evaluation, giving and receiving feedback keeps an evaluation on track by keeping everyone informed about how the program is being implemented and how the evaluation is proceeding. As the evaluation progresses and preliminary results become available, feedback helps ensure that primary users and other stakeholders can comment on evaluation decisions. Valuable feedback can be obtained by holding discussions and routinely sharing interim findings, provisional interpretations, and draft reports. Tailoring reports based on stakeholder groups ● program staff (and volunteers, if appropriate) ● program and organization leadership. ● external stakeholders The Centers for Disease Control provide some tips for writing your evaluation report, which begins with tailoring the evaluation report and results to the audience. Read more at: https://www.cdc.gov/eval/guide/step6/index.htm
Activity- Develop a tailored message to a stakeholder group using the resources below:
● Guidelines for Writing Quality Impact Statements for Workload and Marketing: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/WC/WC24100.pdf ● Condition Changes: How do I measure them (pp. 3-12) ● Impact statements: https://www.uidaho.edu/extension/about/impacts
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