Getting the Most from External Evaluation

Thursday 16 October 2003

Thursday 16 October 2003

10:00

04:00

NICVA, Belfast

£100 (c/v) £150 (stat.)

CENI's one-day course is designed to assist managers and staff from community and voluntary organisations who are involved or responsible for external evaluation. Participants are assisted to ‘get the most’ out of external evaluation by ensuring that the process is well planned, appropriately managed and effectively used.

The course will provide an overview of the concepts and issues involved in external evaluation, including:
What is external evaluation
Why should it be undertaken?
Who should be involved in it?

Participants will also be taken through the process of external evaluation, with emphasis on practical issues such as:

1. How do we develop Terms of Reference?
2. What does ‘putting out to tender’ mean?
3. How do we recruit a suitable Evaluator?
4. How should we manage our external evaluation?
5. How can we maintain ownership and control of the evaluation?
6. How should we use our external evaluation and ensure that its findings contribute to the future development of our project?

The course will include group discussions, individual and group exercises and worked examples. By the end of the day, participants will have developed draft terms of reference for an external evaluation of their own project, considered selection criteria for recruiting an evaluator and criteria to judge the usefulness of an evaluation report.

For more information on training and a booking form please contact CENI at Tel: 028 9064 6355, or write to Training at CENI, 295 Ormeau Rd, Belfast, BT7 3GG. You may also email us at info@ceni.org or visit our website www.ceni.org .