Getting the Most From External Evaluation

Event Date:

Wednesday 12 November 2003

 

Wednesday 12 November 2003

Start Time:

10:00

End Time:

04:00

Location:

NICVA, Belfast

Cost:

£100 (c/v) £150 (stat.)

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

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

one-day course seeks to help managers and staff from community and voluntary organisations who are involved or responsible for external evaluation. The course is designed to assist participants 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.

Contact CENI for booking form: Tel: 028 9064 6355 or email: gladys@ceni.org
You may also access information on training from CENI's website http://www.ceni.org
CENI 295 Ormeau Rd, Belfast, BT7 3GG.

"Strengthening the voluntary sector through a better understanding and use of evaluation"