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How to Perform Evaluations
The How to Perform Evaluations series sets out working standards and guidelines in an easy reference format.
No 1 - Getting Started (PDF, 215 KB, 9 pages)
This Guide describes the steps that are to be taken to initiate an evaluation after management makes the decision to proceed. Specifically, we address terms of reference and evaluator selection.
No 2 - Model TOR (PDF, 124 KB, 13 pages) | Integrated Sample Text (PDF, 111 KB, 9 pages)
Model TOR offers a quick and easy way to prepare your TORs. Sample text is set out by essential reporting element, allowing practitioners to work from a standard that meets the Agency's essential requirements. All you have to do is make the edits as necessary to describe your evaluation.
No 3 - Participatory Evaluations (PDF, 217 KB, 9 pages)
A quick read of our Guide will acquaint you with the value of participatory evaluations and what can be achieved through meaningful stakeholder involvement. A focus is brought to what the Agency has learned about implementing participatory activities, and what practices have proven to work well.
No 4 - Gender Equality (PDF, 221 KB, 9 pages)
This Guide is designed to help CIDA's managers, evaluators and partners integrate the assessment of GE results throughout the evaluation process. It describes what the Agency has learned about structuring to identify GE achievements and assessing results.
No 5 - Evaluation Workplans (PDF, 148 KB, 9 pages) | Model Evaluation Workplan (PDF, 242 KB, 33 pages)
This Guide sets out CIDA's expectations for preparing evaluation workplans. Readers are provided with a comprehensive understanding of what is to be addressed, with information requirements identified by
essential reporting element.
No 6 - Information Collection and Analysis (PDF, 209 KB, 9 pages)
This Guide offers CIDA managers and their evaluators a strategic orientation to information collection and analysis to facilitate informed decision-making. The focus is on optimizing value-added, while respecting the realities of what can be achieved.
No. 7 - Evaluation Reports (PDF, 236 KB, 9 pages)
This Guide was prepared to assist evaluators faced with the task of preparing evaluation reports. A focus is brought to:
- identifying what CIDA expects from evaluation reports,
- instilling a results-based approach to their preparation, and
- enhancing the value-added of the finalproduct.
Distilling essence and value.... Executive summaries are often the most widely-read accounting of what was learned from an evaluation. They usually are the first piece read―and, in some cases, the only piece as many readers are too busy to complete the entire document.
A good executive summary offers a digested version of the overall report that quickly and efficiently informs key audiences. Principal points of the evaluation are consolidated in a stand-alone presentation that is logical, clear, interesting and results-based.
No. 9 - Model Abstracts (PDF, 167 KB, 7 pages)
This guide provides practitioners with a reference model for an 'evaluation abstract'. A quick read provides the reader with tips for writing 'good' abstracts and a standard that sets out what is expected, section-by-section, in terms of the perspective, content, level of detail, etc.
No. 10 - Sharing Results (PDF, 171 KB, 9 pages)
This Guide looks at the sharing of results from two perspectives. First, it suggests ways for realizing value from the evaluation itself. Then, it explores options for sharing results. In so doing, the reader is focused on how to structure evaluations to make a meaningful and enduring contribution.
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