Getting the Most From External Evaluation

Event Date:

Wednesday 17 November 2004

 

Wednesday 17 November 2004

Start Time:

10:00

End Time:

04:00

Location:

NICVA Premises

Cost:

£100 (voluntary & community organisations) £150 (staturory organisations)

Event Type:

Training

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:

How do we develop Terms of Reference?
What does ‘putting out to tender’ mean?
How do we recruit a suitable Evaluator?
How should we manage our external evaluation?
How can we maintain ownership and control of the evaluation?
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 Community Evaluation Northern Ireland, 295 Ormeau Road, Belfast
028 90646355