Comprehensive primary prevention work requires that we work beyond the individual and relationship levels in order to create deep and meaningful change in our communities. The prospect of evaluating beyond the individual and relationship levels of our work can seem daunting. However, although the potential scope of data collection is larger for community-level initiatives, the...

Once you’ve collected data, you need to turn the raw data into a form that is more useful for driving decision making. That means you need to analyze the data in some way. Qualitative and quantitative data are analyzed in different ways. Qualitative Data There are a variety of ways to analyze qualitative data, and...

  Outcomes are often a critical part of program development and evaluation. There are evaluation models that don’t require pre-determined outcomes (goal-free evaluation, for example) and innovative program development models often do not involve pre-establishing specific outcomes and rather look for emergent outcomes. However, most of us will be involved in developing and implementing programs...

This collection of slides created in Microsoft PowerPoint, which is part of the Evaluation Toolkit, accompanies the Training and Capacity-Building Activities Guide in order to easily integrate the activities into training materials. Available slides are indicated in the activity instructions by slide number. Publish Date June 2018

This guide presents detailed instructions for several activities that build evaluation capacity, assist with evaluation planning, and/or assist with data collection, and is part of the Evaluation Toolkit. Also, check out the corresponding downloadable slide deck. Publish Date June 2018

This worksheet provides questions to reflect on the Self-Study Plan on Qualitative Evaluation, and is part of the Evaluation Toolkit.   Publish Date June 2018

This worksheet provides questions to reflect on the Self-Study Plan: Introductions to Evaluation, and is part of the Evaluation Toolkit. Publish Date June 2018

This worksheet provides questions to reflect on the Self-Study plan on Integrated, Creative, and Participatory Evaluation Approaches, and is part of the Evaluation Toolkit. Publish Date June 2018

This worksheet provides questions to reflect on the Self-Study plan on evaluation beyond individual and relationship level changes, and is part of the Evaluation Toolkit. Publish Date June 2018

This guide is designed to help program stakeholders develop a sense of where they want to go and what they need to get there through interactive activities that help describe program model(s), and is a part of the Evaluation Toolkit. Publish Date June 2018