Introducing Self-Evaluation

Tuesday 15 January 2008

Tuesday 15 January 2008

10 a.m.

4 p.m.

NICVA- 61 Duncairn Gardens- Belfast

£100 pp (voluntary/community) £175pp (other)

Event

This course seeks to raise awareness of self-evaluation and promote its use as a management tool which can facilitate organisational planning, review and learning. The course is designed to help staff, managers, volunteers and funders of voluntary and community organisations to understand evaluation concepts and issues and provide a practical introduction to the process of implementing effective self-evaluation systems within their working practice.

Course objectives:

• To increase participants’ awareness of the benefits of self-evaluation
• To increase understanding of self-evaluation concepts and issues
• To enable participants to more effectively plan for self-evaluation
• To develop participants’ knowledge and skills in implementing self-evaluation
• To enhance participants use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluation
• To raise awareness of the process of analysis and interpretation of information
• To highlight the importance of using and disseminating evaluation findings including report writing.

The course combines tutor input with discussion, case studies and exercises to guide participants through the self-evaluation process including planning, data collection, analysis and reporting. Participants on this course can receive an ILM (Institute of Leadership & Management) Development Award for an additional charge of £45.