Getting the Most from External Evaluation

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This one-day course seeks to help managers and staff from community and voluntary organisation who are involved or responsible for external evaluation.

Event Date:

Wednesday 09 November 2005


 

Wednesday 09 November 2005


Start Time:

10.00am


End Time:

4.00pm


Location:

NICVA


Cost:

£125 (voluntary/community) & £175 (statutory)


Event Type:

Event


The course is designed to help participants 'get the most' out of external evaluation by ensuring that the process is well planned, appropriately managed and effectively used.

The course will provide and overview of the concepts and issues involved in external evaluation, including:

  • What is external evaluation?
  • Who should be involved in it?
  • Why should it be undertaken?

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.

To register for the event please phone (028) 9074 9105 or email info@ceni.org.


Community Evaluation NI | Louise McFetridge | 23 Sep 2005
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